Maybe we'll get an article out of Gaby sometime 😉

Correction noted. It does start with each of us. I was thinking that leaders have to set the example, just as each of us does for our children.

Also, you can't necessarily control the time to create. If there is something else going on in the host system, a user watching YouTube, for example, things can take longer.

Size...

The OS matters as well because you might be able to create the 1MB Db as quick as 100MB if zero file initialization is in effect.

We should measure budgeting like we measure programmers and other employees. By Effectiveness.

Not by making/exceeding the budget. We should look at if money was spent well, needs were met, etc....

I agree with a lot of what Grant wrote, and while I haven't done this in awhile, the principles are the same.

Labeling releases is crucial to knowing what goes moving...

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We can help with specific questions if you...

The same permissions from SQL 2000 exist in SQL 2005.

I'm not sure what you mean by not seeing them. Are you not finding this in SSMS?

Moved to the security forum.

Quite a few people are running SQL Server is VMs, but you have to be aware that you have less resources than on a similarly sized server. If you have...

I like Elizabeth's advice, especially about backups. I might put them on the SAN IF I was sure they were on physically separate disks, but you want to make sure...

Be aware that some subsystems, like SSIS, are not instance aware. They can be installed only once on a particular host server. If SSIS is installed, it's available in all...

Certain features of SSMS 2008 are turned off with prior versions. Intellisense is one of them. They didn't write anything to figure out which functions/features work with each version, so...

Do you really need them to execute at the same time or just both execute and return a value before sproc 3?

The technique above from sql_er will work if they...

The compatibility level affects which keywords are working, so you can't do this without changing the level. However you can use T-SQL, as mentioned above, to achieve the same type...

Very strange. I might write a routine to capture the sp_configure settings every hour or so and report if it's changed. That will help you narrow things down to see...