Somebody should post dbcc timewarp on Connect 😉

First, don't grant rights to a user. If there's one, he/she will be replaced, or you'll add someone else. Take 10sec and write

Create role MyDenyRole

Then I'd do a GRANT on...

I wrote about this for a 2008 exam book and found very few references at the time. Here's a few I did find

http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1320

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee819082%28SQL.100%29.aspx

http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/sql-server-consolidation/

Run

Starting a new year today (http://stevejonesssc.blogspot.com/2010/09/goal-update-misc-accomplishments.html)

You can set permissions by schema, or you could assign permissions by object (using a role).

Ultimately, if you have people with DDL_Admin and they are dropping table they shouldn't be,...

Or make sure that this page is using Windows Auth and only you, or other DBAs, can execute stuff.

What you can do as well is just create a stored proc...

You could offer to call MS and get support, but my guess is that they would tell you what Gail has listed here.

I just read Containment (http://www.amazon.com/Containment-ebook/dp/B0039PT4BO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284128240&sr=8-3), $0.99 on Kindle, and got my son started. Really enjoyed it. Life on Venus for a closed colony.

You can read on computer, Android/iPhone if you...

Sane is relative for ex-rugby players

I just started Tribes myself. Also reading The Art of Community while I'm reading a couple novels at the same time.

Bazinga!

http://twitter.com/way0utwest/status/24104674791

Never read about Collosus. I'm assuming this is the Xmen guy?

I always find time to read. Keeps me sane with a break from this world.

Perhaps that's the way of the world. I'd like to think that people get some choice, but perhaps not. 90% (thereabouts) of people in the US are employed. There are...

Good question. I would assume that you run some data through, see what it mines it as, and then you backtrack through the data to see if the results are...

What are you looking for? There are some application testing tools. There's also SQLIO for hardware testing. There's a few options if you narrow down what types of testing you...