You're not likely to find any resources specifically for upgrade exams, other then the "Skills Measured" section, such as at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-457#fbid=OGyNLFIf22D

What I did was get the Trainig Kits for 70-461,...

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I recently purchased some Microsoft Exam prep books for SQL 2012, and I find them to be better written than the ones for SQL 2008. But you still...

Interesting.. when reading that you can restore a single filegroup, I wondered about the wizdom of doing a filegroup restore rather than the entire database because of potential referencial...

The verison of AW you can use is determined by your Database Enigne version, not the version of SSMS. SSMS will manage lower versions of SQL Database engine,...

If the Score Sheet they gave you said "Needs Inprovement" on Query Hints & Encryption, those are features that are relatively easy to implement & experiment with on a practice...

Answers to all these questions are here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification-overview.aspx

Sometime's it's not the database 😉

Did you rule out anti-virus email blocking as I suggested? That's the only issue I've had with Database Mail in my environment (We're using McAfee AV).

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But I don't think...

Good general rule: Jobs that need to run once but NOT more than once should not be scheduled between 1 & 3am on Sunday mornings.

Microsoft exams typically include questions that require knowledge not specifically spelled out in the official exam prep books. This is because they want you to have real world work...

If you've experienced a production clustered instance getting trashed by a botched Service Pack install, then no.

Does the server have anti-virus software on it?

Some anti-virus services will block any email that tries to send from a server to protect it from being used...

JD, It really depends on your experience level with SQL 2008.

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