Is this soccer stuff over today?

Human's definitely need training as well, but despite the failings we have at times with them, I still think they they need to be involved in decisions more. Things like...

Do you mean that the virtual drive is fragmented on the physical one or that inside the virtual drive it appears to be fragmented?

We usually don't defragment drives often when...

Check if you are synchronous or asynchronous with mirroring. If the connection is slow, synch mirroring can slow down the primary a little.

The transactions that are sent to your local...

Here's what I'd do. Create a new local account. Then us the Configuration Manager to set this as the account for SQL Agent. You don't want to use Control Panel...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms143760%28v=SQL.90%29.aspx

Are you an administrator?

Did you check the Event Logs for Windows, especially the security log?

I'd argue against Craig saying that often the business doesn't know what the best use of this data is. Or how it will be used with an extremely high degree...

Sorry, Gail, looks like SA is not moving on in the World Cup.

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I'm not sure Adam's post was much worse than I've seen for a few others. However I do appreciate a few of you taking over my role and trying to...

Anyone?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic940088-61-1.aspx

I posted before, but I'd take a look at this book: Drive

and check out this short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc&feature=player_embedded

It has been shown that incentives for creative people, like IT, results in...

LOL, that's perfect!

I'll chime in on the against. I just haven't seen the separation of tables/entities into groups as much. Perhaps I haven't worked in as large a set of organizations, but...

The database is a shared resource. You don't want to unnecessarily use, or lock, resources that might be needed. What is the user goes to lunch and forgets to release...