Celko is Celko. He has written a lot, and very well, on SQL and standards. However he's an anachronism, a throwback to the past when there were few online resources,...

Interesting thoughts, and thanks for the comments. I still think it's important to get an idea of range early on. Then you can factor that in to deciding how far...

As far as making me more productive, accessing and working with email, checking things on the web, getting pictures and notes done when I'm not at my desk are all...

I didn't look at Blackberry, though I should have. I think BB is on the way down, but I could be wrong. The big thing keeping RIM going is the...

Tobar (11/19/2010)

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I agree that the phones can make you more efficient. My question is do they need to? If you are more efficient does that mean you will go home...

SSMS uses a couple logins. Likely either your query windows or object explorer took the connection. Use SQLCMD to get the only connection and run queries.

Jack Corbett (11/18/2010)

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1. PASS already holds and disperses funds for SQLSaturday's, if the local event chooses to do that. PASS did hold some funds for Orlando this year,...

few ideas here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sqlgetstarted/thread/812b8eec-5b77-42a2-bd23-965558ece5b9/

Note that if you moved and mdf/ldf files, you'll get errors when you restore master.

How to restore the master: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190679%28v=SQL.90%29.aspx

P Jones (11/18/2010)

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Thanks for summing up this week's internal battle in one paragraph!

Developers wanting sysadmin rights and I can't override it as they come under a different management chain...

Added: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Forum2838-1.aspx

There you go: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Forum2837-1.aspx

Ron,

That's how I've tended to view things. I do what I can, educate people, explain risks and recommendations with a "why" and then let management decide.

I think it helps to...

I haven't done this, but a few thoughts.

First, an SSIS package can handle multiple threads and process things in parallel, but it would have to know what files to pick...

I'm slightly confused, is the person a login in SQL Server as a part of a group, or do they have an explicit login?