Hey, I taught Mr. Young something. Didn't think that was likely to happen. Usually it's the other way around.

I don't recommend it, messing with master, IMHO, incurs risk that you'll...

You could potentially mess with permissions on the XP in master and limit it to a specific role.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend this and be sure you have this well...

Be sure that you have master set to grow automatically or some space in there. You might need a bit as you make changes.

The endpoint for your other server is not available. Just like you connect to SQL Server on TCP port 1433, mirroring uses a different port, the default being the one...

Management Studio doesn't automatically do anything to services. If you stopped the SQL service, it's possible the application depends on it and would stop, but running SSMS wouldn't do this.

I like IM, though I like my Trillian account. New messages don't pop up, but they highlight in the task bar, so I can notice them, but they aren't in...

As with everything, it depends.

I think it's as likely that it's thrown in there to limit the candidates as it is just an addition by HR that isn't really required....

Intellisense is built into SSMS 2008, but only when connected to 2008 instances.

Ah, I think your prediction about your predictions predicts my predictions as well 😀

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/System+Development+Life+Cycle/vcspart1/523/

I agree with Matt. You need rules for Devs and DBAs, backed to some extent by permissions, to ensure that some VCS is used.

Yikes, you're giving me more forums!

I like the Challenges. We have a "contests" one, but I'll rename it to Challenges/Contests.

I'm not sure how much work is involved in anything other...

Luke, great link and I've sent a feedback note to the BOL team to correct one of the pages. Not a great question in light of that link.

I have heard...

LOL, I survived with 1 headphone, though most of my phones didn't have bluetooth :). I did lose it for a few weeks, but found it. This was after I...

I run XP on the desktop (main working environment) and Vista Ultimate on my laptop (4GB RAM), which I use for editing the podcasts. It works OK, but not great....