That's a great idea for recruitment at growing companies, but not so good at larger ones. However larger ones could make a deal with a used furniture company to swap...

One thing I'd mention that came up with a friend yesterday. Be sure that your help desk, sys admins, etc. know where the VM exists on a physical host. Someone...

No it definitely sounds strange.

If you can make the test, what if you delete your 7GB backup and then run the job? Does it work?

I'm reaching here, testing different things.

I'm with Gus. Go test them out, take a book, spend 15 minutes (at least) in each one you like. Maybe bring a laptop, type a little, get a feel...

http://www.sqldts.com

There are also many articles on this site.

It should install. It runs on the Microsoft help platform, but there might be components from the client tools it is expecting. Do you have the 2000 client tools installed?

Jack has it pretty close. Developers also focus or worry about things that may or may not be what is needed by the client. That's natural, we have a different...

It's a simple OS error reported to SQL. Either the account has a quota limitation or there truly is not enough space. If you manually run the backup yourself, does...

I agree. It doesn't appear that you understand how SQL Server is optimized.

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I think this is great behavior. Allows you to easily log things that might happen in a transaction that needs to roll back. If you used a permanent table, your...

You can mirror the databases between sites.

I'd actually run a maintenance job to clean these up every night, or flag them for someone to look at. Rather than do this at insert time, which could cause...

Roy,

If I can get Red Gate to send me, I might come out there for a talk!

Tend to agree with that. Throw one away.

From BOL http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151797.aspx

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select name as published_object, schema_id, is_published as is_tran_published, is_merge_published, is_schema_published

from sys.tables where is_published = 1 or is_merge_published = 1 or is_schema_published =...