Well, since I forgot about Database Weekly, I am :w00t:

I'd argue, Jeff, we can do both.

Tune us an OS server on a core installation, and also improve the language. I bet some of your items might be voted up...

Congrats, Roy, and great job!

Great analysis, GSquared, but it also means that we are assuming that the botnet doesn't get a hash of the password.

To me that's the bigger danger. A backup tape...

You can do this in EM or via T-SQL

BOL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190794.aspx

Articles: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/attachanddetachagain/656/

The one thing you need to be aware of is that it doesn't move logins. It moves users, but they'll...

And leave their bow,...

The switch I mentioned is the only way I have seen that work, and that's only if you can co-locate the data in one system. Other than that, there's no...

You can't calculate growth unless you know the load. The easiest way to guess this is look at the backup sizes over time. See if they are changing and extrapolate....

There will still be downtime with the cluster. Or there might be. As people try to connect, they'll get moved to the new cluster, but if you failover, those connected...

I got a note from someone that said my old picture was very unprofessional with a T-shirt on. They said they were in HR and it sent a bad impression...

There definitely seem to see more jobs in the BI sector, especially SSIS in the US. Not sure about the UK.

I think anything you can do to broaden your skills...

You do not need to install the server, just the client tools.

Thanks for the update, hadn't seen that.

For others, essentially a deletion of the SSMS shell key in the registry fixed this.

Why not detach and attach on the new server?

This set in the server properties as a default. For each user, you can see the properties of each user.