Traces can work, but I'd agree with Gus. Third party tool. Log to a folder that the tool and the DBAs can not read from. Only write to.

Tim Parker (10/15/2010)

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I believe the industry as a whole may place too much emphasis on the years of experience, versus the actual aptitude of the individual they are interviewing. ...

I'm not sure what you can do here, except perhaps limiting the deletes to smaller batches and then use less RAM.

You could use separate instances, but then you'll be balancing...

Be sure that you have rights to those files for the service accounts.

Make sure that the paths in master are correct.

Who throws a can of soda out of a car? That's insane. Almost makes you want to hook up a camera and 10 min loop of video, recording what...

I think the problem is that we don't have any rating of what a senior DBA is. Is it someone that's been a DBA for 7 years? Because it's easy...

LSCIV (10/14/2010)

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This is true for some environments. In my...

You wouldn't want to mirror to the passive node since it's part of the same cluster. Any storage issue would wreck your system.

This is slightly off topic. If you are...

Ben Moorhouse (10/15/2010)

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With disk space getting cheaper and cheaper, I'm considering doing some basic disaster recovery for home.

Copying all music/photos etc onto a big disk and taking it to a...

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Most of my friends run ESX. Haven't heard of any large Hyper-V installations with SQL.

AFAIK, there's only one technology of the e-ink e-paper that's for sale. I think the there are slight tweaks to get better grayscale bettter on the Kindle 3 and new...

jcrawf02 (10/14/2010)

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Other than the nostalgia factor,...

You can use any system that can run a Windows executable, like the Windows scheduled tasks.

If you schedule a job through SQL Agent, you'll see the command line in the...

Glad my coffee cup is empty so I didn't spray the monitor :w00t::hehe:

I used something...