I think, as others have mentioned, that you have a very colored experience in one way. Or two ways.

I have seen good and bad DBAs, good and bad developers with...

What's in the query? Can you post it?

Yanks only .5 back. Still might be a race there. I wouldn't count out Boston either. A few years ago the Yanks were like 13 or 14 out in May...

Here's a basic article :http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/64547/

Help..About on both SSMS instances will give you versions.

And a perfect game for Moneyball. Very cool and wish I'd been able to see it.

Perfect

I haven't seen them used much, especially in third party products, but I always wished that back in 2000 we would have had them instead of the owner.

I think they...

I know I'm late here, but a few thoughts.

1. Look over the capabilities here (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993%28v=SQL.105%29.aspx, but I'd think that for what you're looking for, Workgroup will work. If you can...

Sorry, got busy for the day. Perry is correct. To import data, you just need insert (maybe update/delete) on tables. To export, just SELECT.

Backups are the easiest way to move...

You don't want to do this often, for reasons George mentioned. However if you do shrink data flies, leave enough space to run a reindex on the database.

If you have...

OK, if I understand this.

You have a master SQL Server instance, let's call it Server A. This has various databases on it. You have a developer (DevA, DevB) and each...

Jim,

It's still not clear. You're saying you have developers and each has their own server? Do you mean that the developers have their own instance locally on their machines? And...

Immaculate correct....I like that.

Don't see an open event, but there is an event that snags object access:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175013%28v=SQL.100%29.aspx