bphipps-931675 (3/25/2011)

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We are using the Standard Version in our office because it's all my company can afford, but it really limits my ability in Reporting Services because you can't do...

I would like to see the differentiation done by hardware, not be feature. We're a small IT shop, but not having something like database snapshot really sucks. (We're...

jay holovacs (2/23/2011)

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Rod at work (2/23/2011)

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...I've brought up the topic, in the past, of telecommuting, and it has been shot down each time. Basically it is shot down because...

This is a very timely article/topic. I've worked for the same company for many years, and have always taken public transit to get to work. Up until 2...

paul.knibbs (12/8/2010)

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I can see a potential issue here. You say users have lost data--but what if other users have updated the same database after that data loss? If you roll...

Should I apply SP3 for SQL Server 2005, before I try messing about with the maintenance plan modifications?

Thank you Gail, Lowell and Steve!

WOW, how timely this article is.

Ah, Craig, thank you. I need a mnemonic device to help me remember, and that will do.

WOW. Thank you. BTW, that control sequence isn't really obvious. (At least not to me.)

Actually in our environment, I noticed that we had 18 months worth of .bak and .trn files on the server. It was because of this that I thought I...

Craig Farrell (10/18/2010)

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I... hesitate to tell YOU that it's okay to destroy YOUR backup files. However, I can help you figure out if it's right for you.

First, keep any...

upstart (10/18/2010)

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Yes, you can safely delete these files. I would setup, if you do not have one already, a Job that will run periodically and auto-remove the old backups...

Thank you for the advise, GSquared.

Probably in most cases I can do that, but in some cases we have large wide columns (VARCHAR(4000) or so), and so I don't think I could do that in...