you are welcome and good luck. Let us know if something changes. If you think it's something different, start a new thread and we'll try to help.

I think the guy doing the work can get a variety of rates.

I'd expect short term rates to be in the $75-150/hr range, depending on experience. Longer term rates would...

The free space should diminish, and Lynn has a good explanation.

I'd leave the 13GB and watch it. I wouldn't expect you'd have the file sizes grow in the short term.

An object can only be on one filegroup, so depending on what is where, it could be causing growth there. Also, maintenance operations, like index rebuilds, can require tremendous space,...

It could be blocking. That would explain the "not much happening"

The sql client software is free. It is backward compatible, However you need a CAL to connect to SQL. You can license your servers to accept CALs, meaning that a...

Lynn Pettis (9/16/2009)

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Actually, soccer season has just started! Yea!! My crew actually was applauded last night as we walked of the pitch after a high school game. Parents...

If you have to ball, we knock you off your feet! :hehe:

Thanks, Ben.

I'll let the heavy coders give it a try, but it looks pretty good so far.

Do you mean as a file? SQL Server doesn't write to files. You can call this from SQLCMD and output to a file.

It's hard to draw a line. I've been told we were idiots because we quite often refused $$$ to do something. Left money on the table, but I think we...

Servers Alive used to be pretty cheap and work well.

Note that you need to set up a couple places from which to monitor from since one of them could be...

Remember that Unisys isn't just one entity. It's composed of lots of people, some good, some bad. I have some friends at Unisys that would be on your side.

It's Sept. I think soccer talk is officially over now that football, real football, is here.

You can change to a new name, it just can't already be used.