I'll add my vote for two monitors. All my developers have two, as do I. I noticed an immediate productivity benefit to it.

You'll be happier with the results if you use a date format that orders the date YYYY-MM-DD. The files will sort properly by date, even from one month or...

sp_start_job doesn't wait for the job to finish, does it? So if you have three in a row, the jobs will all start within milliseconds of each other.

It is not a recommended practice to backup to a network share, though I did that for a couple of years without problems.

The method I use now is to schedule...

Are you using a local account rather than a network account?  Try using a domain account, and configuring the mail profile to use that.  (Logon to your server with that...

Hopefully this will help. 

Here's a sample I found on the net some time back:

' Get User Information gui.vbs

' Revision history

' Created 11-26-2001 by Ralph Montgomery - Firsthealth of the...

Hopefully this will help. 

Here's a sample I found on the net some time back:

' Get User Information gui.vbs

' Revision history

' Created 11-26-2001 by Ralph Montgomery - Firsthealth of the...

Double check that the account that SQL Agent uses is correct.  Also, it looks like your MAPI program (Outlook?) may be the culprit.  Go into the Control Panel and reset...

I agree with rudy.  None of my days are typical.  I tend to spend 75% of my time debugging vendor supplied stored procedures and writing ad-hoc queries to find/fix problems...

Use either a domain account or a local user account for the Agent. 

Disabling the Windows Firewall is a bad idea if the laptop is ever out of your corporate environment, where you are protected by the firewall at the perimeter.  However, if it...

Make sure the user ColdFusionUser has the correct permissions on the folder containing the file you are trying to import.  Server 2003 locks down permissions, so you have to specifically...

Would it make sense to have a sub-table with the values, so if null, there is no subtable column?

declare table main (id int identity)

declare table main_values(id int identity, main_id int,...

I set transaction log backups to occur every hour, and in EM, set SQL to delete backups older than 3 days.  I have a Scheduled Task on the server which...

Have you checked the windows event logs?  The security log will show you who connected to the server.  It would have to be a sys admin or administrator to drop...