Interesting link. I think it's a hard thing to define, and such a small % of people that it's not as well understood as developer, sysadmin, etc.

OK, I have edited the question to say "Can" instead. However I don't agree with a lot of the comments here.

First, if the paths don't exist on your system, or...

I think the problem with things like BrainBench is that they allow guesses. No explanation required as a follow up. If everyone treated it seriously as a way to gauge...

Nice job, David.

Everyone look for Part 2 next week.

You would need to examine how quickly things are being written to the distribution db, as well as then to the subscribed. I'd enable a tracer token and see how...

What you're talking about almost sounds like a Business Intelligence project. Make a large investment, someone on faith, that putting more effort in up front will pay off later.

To a...

I've got plenty of friends that avoid lead roles (and management) completely. Others do what you're doing, others try management.

Management is a different role, and a different set of skills....

I've edited out the "smart" comment.

Apologies for those that took it the wrong way.

I understand budget issues, and the need to get the work done. Either you want to do it (and are willing) or you aren't. If you aren't, you might put...

Jamie,

thanks for the update and explanation. And we're glad to help, sounds like we did, and please feel free to come back if you have more questions

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Replication/31168/

And network cable.

I've been bitten by both of those, and usually they're something I think about after a few days of pulling my hair.

Also, please edit it to the relevant part of the post you want to quote. You don't need to quote everything.

Apologies, but I don't believe I called all developers reckless. Some of this was in fun, and you might step back and realize I said...

Application logins require a password from the code (or app), and unless you can prevent the devs from knowing this, it doesn't help.

The way to handle this is not let...