Dunno... think it requires some level of expertise to pass the exam. I'm sure there are people out there who cheat.

I think you have to look at everything as...

Jimmy,

After you changed the max memory did you run reconfigure? you need to run it. SQL will then grab the additional memory when it needs it.

If you were...

Loner - way to go. I think that about sums it up.

I guess my question is why would someone not become certified if they are serious about being...

roger.plowman (7/3/2008)

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I used to work for a consulting company that was certificate crazy. They thought it impressed the customers to have all their employees dripping with certificates.

That company went belly...

One option for those interested in studying, there's a Google group that Jeff Belina runs (although there hasn't been much activity for a while)

http://groups.google.com/group/study-group-sql-2005/

Jim Russell (7/3/2008)

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Well done!

IMHO, product specific certifications (which need continuing updates) are not a good investment. I limit myself (with the exception of Sun's Java) to certifications that are non...

Well put! I think most of the posts...

I know I picked the 2nd one too....

Brad,

There will always be people out there who 'think' they know what they're doing, who know enough to be dangerous.

Keep in mind none of us know everything, there's always something...

Article is good, only thing is caution must be exercised when deleteing DB's. I usually take them offline for a while first and see if anyone complains, even if...

Nice work! I've implemented similar processes and found that they work well - one thing you need to beware of with this approach is if you make a change...

My 02c... whatever the client or supervisor needs....

I have a friend who worked at a bank as a DBA. one day a month they had to go...

Excellent work! I really enjoyed this one, it's timely as we've been discussing different approaches to auditing.

Yah me to. Can't see it on the screen... gonna try the sleect trick.

Excellent article. I've found it's a crapshoot getting things to work w/ oracle reliably from SQL server.....