Yep, it's an old salt mine and sounds cool. However, not being an underground guy, if they offer a tour, I'll send you, Brandie. I don't even go into mines...

Worst practices can definitely be a better starting point somehow. At least you can point to something that they can see is a bad example.

David,

You are correct. I think it's much harder to lead, and since the bar is set so low for managers, they tend to follow that path.

0-4 this week. Popout, fly out, FC, K. Not so good today on a chilly, rainy day in May.

I've seen a couple incidents of plagiarism lately on different sites. Not all from this site, but a few places that have copied info from MSDN/Technet, or other blogs.

It's a...

We can add space if needed. I'll look over both plans tomorrow as well and see what I think.

Tom,

I completely wrote this from the employment perspective for DBAs. Keeping data safe, being honest, those are important and if you don't do this, even "under orders", you might not...

I have SQL2K8 on 3 Win 7 machines, 2 Pro, 1 Ult, both x86 and x64

Here's a couple articles:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/1353/

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/1535/

Lynn,

I think it was OK. From a technical standpoint, it makes sense. The issue seems that some people don't understand log chaining, so things read funny to them. I think...

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I've done this, and we've set static ports in the firewall. If you don't do this, then you open a big range on the firewall, which upsets security people. Also...

The issue I've had with large logs is reading them when there are issues. It's a PIA to open a 5MB file. I'd cycle often enough to keep them opening...

Lynn Pettis (4/30/2010)

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Should I be scared? Nearly half of those who have answered the QotD have gotten it wrong. Could be people not fully reading the question, but...

I dfon't think we need licenses for each person. That's why we'd go hosted.

Don't fret about $10-20 a month difference. Pick the best service/features.