Create a role for this, then create VIEW DEFINITION rights to the role. Add the login to the role.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175808.aspx

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that you'll have the VM files on Amazon's service or you'll host VMs at Amazon? I'm not familiar enough with the...

I'm with some others. I researched it, set up some basics in 2005 and just found it to be way, way more cumbersome than it needs to be. I'm not...

I think that we agree that some things are necessary, therefore some taxes are required. Always have been, always will be. Be altering the tax code to allow some things,...

SQL Server doesn't map the data files to a network location by default, and it won't map to most transfer protocols and work at any reasonable speed. It really...

I'll only disagree on one part. I think that government can create jobs. Not by spending our tax dollars, but with tax incentives, especially a reduction of taxes, they can...

Very cool video. Worth watching:

http://bit.ly/aY1jlN

I don't think that doing your hobby as a job is necessarily bad. But it is different than doing it casually or for fun and you really need to think...

Are you doing a shrink file or shrink db? I've had the former work better.

And here I thought cat litter was a clustering agent. :w00t:

I think you're right, but I'm not sure the exam delves this far down. From what I remember, execution plan is pretty much used for the query plan as a...

webrunner, that's a good point. I'll add that to the list, and I like the idea.

So in summary

Execution Plan = Query Plan + Execution Context

Context is used specific information in terms of parameters and other data structures that could change for that proc/batch.

There are quite a few people here with Oracle skills, including Jeff. I'm not sure Jeff wants to help with Oracle, but worth a try.

I thought AIX was pretty cool,...

I'm not sure there are training trends as there just isn't a lot of variety in classes. There are specific classes on certain topics, but not enough people attend them...