Thanks, I'm the last man standing, but certainly not the winner. Final standings:

Johan - 14

Allen - 10

Steve - 9

Bradley - 8

Sean - 7

sqlRaider - 6

Mark - 4

Dean - 4

I'll shoot...

Don't forget to think about running this for a year to catch those once a year processes.

If you think about removing anything, make sure you get a script of the...

It is permissions. OS 5 is access denied from Windows.

there has to be something weird going on there. Can you run this on your system and perhaps see permissions and...

Personally what I would do is make a small db on all servers for your admin stuff. Then have a job that populates a table in this db with the...

It's definitely permissions. AFAIK, however, it's the SQL Service account, not the agent account, that needs permissions.

The agent logs in just like you do from your workstation. The backup is...

I like Craig's advice, but Michael's is probably where I'd start. Usually shrinkage affects inventory, so I'd compare ordering with sales and look for discrepancies. One of the things you...

I like the inventory project. Ought to be fairly simple, and it can be useful.

*cool*, haven't lost my touch

:-D:w00t:

Do you know what shrinkage is, from a data standpoint? Or is that where you are looking for guidance?

Once you define it, then you might play with the data mining...

It sounds like someone might have messed with permissions on the server. If you set to LocalSystem as a test, does that work?

First, make sure you understand the difference between user and login. You will not necessarily want to remove logins. If you are restoring, then you should understand what the implication...

The biggest problem I've heard about is the lack of additional tuning done with the ORM tools. Implicit conversions with varchar -> nvarchar (and vice versa) can be an issue,...

Can you not join all three tables on the ConsignmentValue field and just display the date?

select a.date1, b.date2, c.date3

from a

inner join b

...

creating a procedure or creating a job is just executing a T-SQL batch. It can be more complicated in terms of permissions and you will have to resolve that, but...

The other thing I thought about here is what is the second process? What are you doing after 2 minutes. The type of process might dictate what I'd recommend.