Nice article Steve!

as technology improves, the density of computing power is getting higher and higher... got get more MIPS and storage, less and less physical space is required. Think...

Andy - well put!

I think alot depends, and I also think this practice has gone on longer when you stop and think about it. In the days before the internet many companies did...

Yah it's missing again 🙁

Steve,

If it's out there in the public domain people will find it. If you don't want anyone to know, then don't put it out there.

I've been working in IT...

I couldn't find the sproc either...

Article was high-level, and give a real-world view (easier to use the tools than try and tackle it manually). Thought it was good- maybe...

blandry (7/31/2008)

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...With a DBA quitting, and things amiss before an important compliance activity, clealry this is a company with staff problems. Solve those, inspire, motivate, and then formulate your...

Nice job! Would like to learn a bit more though, looking forward to part 2

Having been in this sort of situation and having had it thrust upon me, my approach would have been to step back and analyze what's necessary - inventory and document...

Brian,

Awesome work! What tool did you use to create the video?

Nice work! I would like to have seen a bit more technical stuff though, as to how you're going to maintain the copies across the network, using replication, log...

For testing purposes, you could make the account an adminstrator on the box it's running on and see if the problem goes away. I suspect you have a rights...

If you use the admin tools, you don't need the...

Nope... our prod boxes are not virtual, but the idea behind virtual servers is to have lots of virtual servers running on one box... IIS, SQL, File and Print, application,...

One of the issues with VM's is shared resources. For example, if my Database needs xxxxx cpu cycles, and someones iis box needs xxxxx cycles, and there are only...