I agree with Gail and Alvin. You want to represent yourself well, and show what you know on your resume. I have talked to dozens of people that eliminated candidates...

That material is on the MS site. It outlines what you need to know. A book or the training kit will help give you more details.

This will help, but you need practice with the product. 431 includes simulations, so you must be able to do things in SSMS.

As far as the exam, the details on...

It's definitely a topic of discussion, and worth debating and understanding. Virtualization has come quickly, and it has failed in a number of places, because it wasn't well thought out....

A cursor is a structure that you acts on data. A table is a collection of data. A temp table or table var are also collections of data. They don't...

What is acceptable to your colleague? Are you talking the delay between the commit in server A and then on B?

I'd agree with Gail. The certs aren't going to help you learn 2008 or do the upgrade. It's the other way around.

No worries. The questions aren't here to mark you with a score. They're here to get you to think about things, and perhaps learn something.

And they teach me how to...

Are you trying to build something to read TDS streams?

I might start here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191220.aspx

or drop a note on this blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sql_protocols/

Since this is "The Thread", I wanted to note I've listed the code tags for the forums here:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic698708-83-1.aspx

Strange. Perhaps something intermittent.

I use the overall feed in Google Reader, works well for me.

Please create a new thread if you find issues.

I might be tempted to copy the file, rename it to the same name every day and let the restore then run. Works well if you move this to another...

Use the wizard, pick a dbase driver.

Here we do send quite a few emails. We have

Table1 - Emails, put in the actual email text. may have tokens embedded that are replaced at send time.

table2 - email...