As long as you can respond quickly enough. I'd try the trace for a week first and then disable others.

Note that I would not delete any old logins for a...

While most of these answers a silly, for the OP, the best advice is that you should answer honestly. If you were hired and unable to actually write an SSIS...

Chores.

If you suspect that a login hasn't been used in a long time, or is inactive, I would disable it, make a note in your logs, and then notify help...

What does "I have an old backup that was replaced by the last backup" mean? Which files, and from when, do you have?

Actually it's usually, you're that guy that does those podcast things at SQL-something. You sure make a lot of mistakes (as they walk away chuckling)

I played that on Rock Band recently and had a great time.

It would be great to see some detailed analysis of the execution. If you want to write it up, I'd like to publish it.

Nice job, and thanks for the day off.

You could get fragmentation, but you should not be "letting them grow." Monitor space, and when it gets low, make a big growth to give you 3-6 months of space....

It raises like a V12 Ferrari when you press the accelerator.

CirquedeSQLeil (4/7/2010)

Wow. My kids typically settle down as soon as I pull over to the side of the road. They know deep down that I would probably carry...

Uh, no. Barry's...

I'm not sure why attach / detach would be easier with more files. Typically adding more files makes maintenance slightly more complicated.

If you can separate different objects onto different filegroups,...

I've always been mostly a DBA, at least since I left the sysadmin stuff behind.

However I'm certainly not one now :w00t: