My college rugby coach made us play soccer.

Didn't bother with red card or running laps. Wouldn't have been any players left.

Never heard of that, but I suspect that there isn't anything you can do. A detach in that phase would seem to suggest you had the backup files and could...

Be sure you put it back in full mode and then do as Jeffrey suggested.

Until you perform a log backup (in full mode), the log keeps growing.

I think you mean delete un-needed log file backups. If you delete log files made since the last full backup, you lose the backup chain. What if your backup fails?...

It makes zero sense to back up the data folder and backup folder. It's the same data, and arguably the data folder is useless since a backup not made through...

You have not really explained what is wrong.

SQL Server does not return ambiguous results unless you mean that

SELECT * from MyTable

doesn't return the same results in the same order. It...

Have someone outside the DBA group, maybe in finance or accounting, look through the logs. Show them how to query, how to search, let them examine traces.

Have the traces written...

Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but I think the NBA refs are good, but in a horrible spot. I'm amazed how often on replays I see what they called,...

Please check the SQL Server error log for some explanation of why it's suspect.

Thanks, it was published accidentally when it should have been scheduled. The date is correct.

Cost isn't necessarily an issue. If you install Standard edition (or workgroup) twice on a server, you need two licenses. You don't get unlimited licenses in 2005. You do in...

I watch football - http://eteamz.active.com/Bruins/sounds/TVTheme-ABC,NFL-AreYouReadyForSomeFootball.wav

Use your hands, use your body, hit somebody!

Have you checked to ensure remote connections are allowed?

There must be a setting to not use named pipes and use TCP/IP

Have you tried building an SSIS package using the SS2K8...

Steve Eckhart (5/22/2009)

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Steve,

I find it very sad that your description of Memorial Day, "something that celebrates the start of warm weather and time off," is all that Memorial Day means...

Tom Brown (5/22/2009)

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Over the Spring Bank Holiday (Whatever happned to calling it Whitsun) I'll be out on my bike, getting muddy - probably over at Cannock Chase - but possiby...