The White Shadow? That's you isn't it? I can still (almost) dunk a basketball.

Twitter is a lot like The Thread, only moving at a slightly faster pace.

You can sign up and just follow people, not posting yourself.

SQLSaturday is still transitioning from Andy and I to the PASS group and they're learning. Getting a new email setup for each event is a logistical issue for them right...

My wife got me a new hat this past weekend. I was wearing it when I went to take water out to a...

Chris,

The last few jobs I've had...

Another vote for Jefferey and Simon. Use Cluster Manager, leave the services alone.

I'd agree with Jeffrey here that SSIS is a better solution. While you can access the csv in real time, you'll essentially be pulling the entire file into SQL each...

I'd also recommend that you pick up a copy of Grant's book to help you better understand.

*= is a left outer join. You'd convert this as'

select a.customer, b.order

from customers a, orders b

where c.customerid *= b.customerid

to

select a.customer, b.order

from customers a

left outer join...

Here are a few more:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/customlogshipping/1201/

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Log+Shipping/70506/

First, never grant privileges to users. Create a role, grant rights to the role, add users to the role. You do this for the exact reason that you are trying...

While I haven't used BackupExec 12, I've had experience with 11, 10, a few other versions. I've always had issues doing restores with BackupExec, especially when I had a disaster.

As...

I've seen both. I like the crossover cable since it's easy to setup and less to break.

You can also do a backup/restore or detach/attach on the production server, but be sure that it's what you really want to move.

There are also compare tools, like SQL Compare...

I still like WayneS' avatar the best.