At a hospital, we literally turn off, or make unavailable, our major systems from 1:00 am to 2:00 am on the big day and go to paper.  For example, if...

I'm a member  of the Prohibition Party. (yes there is one) .  Where does that put me ?

I loved that video rome4for.  I had not heard of 3/4 of them.  Of course I was raised on FORTRAN, BASIC, and graduated to Cognos Powerhouse and SQL Server.  I...

All I can say is $$$$$$$. With over 200 RDBMs installs we were quoted for over $300,000 for auditing software (Oracle). Of course the 2 DBAs would be...

Interesting and thoughtful article. At 56 years of age, the article was right up my alley. I am reminded of what Charles DeGaulle said to a staffer when...

I work for a health system (2 hospitals) and I support over 20 servers with SQL 2000 on them. Of course I support over 200 servers........

Agree with most of all said. I've seen alot of .NET code that produces TSQL stuff that is unreadable. Looking at the execution plan could take a day....

Find out what bars you've been at on Sat night. Get someone to monitor your behavior when you leave the bar.

I have never been "put on the carpet" for security matters. I have been "put on the carpet" for getting things finished on time. Security takes time. I've...

I'm not sure this helps but here we go:

1 Stored procs owned by dbo is OK.

2 When a user has rights to run the stored proc, if all the objects...

I can't imagine your DBA won't help. Its amazing how some people interact with each other (or don't)

If I had to vote now, I'd go with mirroring. I'm worried log shipping would get bogged down with 80+ databases...but thats just a guess. But like earlier...

Just to muddy the waters, I used to program at a company that did financial calculations for loan companies. I've use what we called 360 day calendar.....every month had...

I admit, I don't verify all my backups. Why. I support 80 + SQL Servers, am expected to support 2 large Oracle apps (Peoplesoft and Cerner), 4 Sybase...

My vote goes to the job cleanup. If Tivoli or Windows Backup is hitting a file when your job tries to delete it.......I think you can get the 42000....