Points have been awarded back and the question corrected to ask which one should be used, and then to note the DMV is the correct answer.

We do not have a code or a deal with PASS this year.

The early bird rates have typically never included a discount because they are always so heavily discounted.

Usually chapter...

Sorry, RESTORE HEADER ONLY: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa238455%28v=sql.80%29.aspx

If you look through all the files, with a RESTORE HEADERONLY, you can check the for LSN (log sequence number). If you get to this highest one you have, you've...

restore with replace to copy over the existing database: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186858.aspx

Or in SSMS, on the options tab, check the "overwrite"

This, as Grant mentioned, overwrites everything in the database with what's in...

No guarentees. 64 teams, no duplicates, so you draft the 8 based on what everyone else has drafted.

As a note: the 64 are (play-ins will be whoever gets in.)

(1) Ohio...

In case any of you are interested, I'm thinking of a March Madness tournament. Limited to 8people

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1077841-61-1.aspx

It's not clear what you are doing or what's wrong.

Any full backup can be restored on top of any database. You cannot, however, restore a differential unless it is being...

I don't think there's anything in SQL that supports this, but you could encrypt the file, and then sign the encrypted file with a certificate, like you'd digitally sign any...

Twitter is great, but it's a social animal. The value of twitter comes from knowing other people on line.

You do have to manage it. It can't be the end-all be-all....

You don't have an update here. What are you trying to update from where? The two SELECT's don't explain what you are trying to do.

ditto

Good comments, and very true. NoSQL doesn't necessarily work for many of the highly transactional systems we have. However it might be nice for others. Maybe DSS, maybe some of...

I'll look one over as well, Craig

We have lots of scripts here that will do that. Look at some of these:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/search/?q=backup+and+copy&t=s