We don't do it now, but that's how we've done it before. You can also get a router that will limit the bandwidth used, so you can control the flow.

By default SQL Server does not allow databases on mapped drives. You can get around this, but it is not recommended. The reason is that network IO can have latencies...

As Gail mentioned, each link has a Source that shows where the link is from. We link one or two of our articles each day and then a couple external...

I'm not sure I agree they're basic recovery. To me basic recovery is just restoring a database. The "why" gets into when it's a disaster.

Your point is well taken, that...

Blandry, I miss that. Too many places I've worked in the last decade didn't require code reviews. It seemed once Y2K passed without a big issue, lots of companies just...

There shouldn't be. I was puzzling over how someone could do this. We should not allow blank emails.

Sorry, Gail. Rebuilt laptop on the road, no VPN, but I shall look into it.

Perhaps it is a secret admirer? Or Phil has started some new contest to see who...

I second Gail's recommendations on those books. They're worth reading.

I've always struggled with this. Red Gate's Dependency Tracker (grown out of a conversation that Andy and I had with Red Gate) really helps if you depend on these things.

I...

A disaster encompasses many things, not just losing a data center. A disaster can be someone deleting a single table (or even row), coffee spilled on a server, all the...

I don't know what a snap server does, but I can think of two things. The bad block you've mentioned, and you'd need vendor tools to check this at a...

What was it set to before, and why? I'd be wary of altering this unless you know why it is not 0. Or that you make sure that you're not...

Any version/edition of SQL Server 2008 can restore a compressed backup, however only enterprise can make one.

It does have to be 2008.

You could automate this by looping through the tables and doing a BCP out for a schema, however that doesn't get views/procs/functions.

Jack's suggestion might be the best one.

Be sure that you are now running transaction log backups, and that you took a full backup after the shrink and change from simple.