Worked perfectly on sQL 2008 for me.

Yes, they have MCM's for Exchange, Windows Server Active Directory, Office Comminucations Server, SharePoint, and SQL Server.

I'm taking the SQL MCM in the spring. 🙂

And I do agree completely. I think the certification tests should be a measurement of your knowledge gained through experience rather than gained through memorizing a test guide. I don't...

I became a DBA because I wanted to too. Many moons ago, I interviewed to be a web developer (my first tech job), but what they really needed was a...

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Just to add my take on becoming a master, I guess one needs to follow on things told by Gail,Steve,TheSQLGuru and any other SQL Expert that I fail to...

Although not applicable to this scenario, you should also be aware that locks on objects are not the only thing that can cause a deadlock. For example, you could have...

Hmm, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932557 works for me.

So am I. How many different ways do I have to say it? Cheese and fries!!

Don't misunderstand me. I'm not implying that its not MSFT's fault. I'm just suggesting that the wrath be well-focused. 🙂

The SQL Server team doesn't write the providers to connect to SQL Server. Unfortunately, whoever does the JET provider has yet to write a 64 bit version of it. So...

I thought this was an excellent article. I agree with Barry's suggestion regarding certification. It's simply one of the things you can do to guide your training in new areas...

Sorry Jordon. I missed that tidbit in the original post. You are correct that asynchronous mirroring is Enterprise only. Standard edition is also single threaded for the redo, so you...

Hi Jordon. First of all, thanks for buying my book!! 🙂

Secondly, it sounds like you have already made the right decision by adopting a more intelligent approach towards index maintenance.

I...

Actually, the author and the first two replyers are wrong about the order of precedence. If you fully understand tha order of precedence, multiplication is evaluated before division. The order...

FYI: I have an active feature request on the Connect site to add the CU level to the output of @@version and xp_msver and to either add it to ServerProperty('ProductLevel')...