You should follow Gail's links and check out the various ones offered and decide which one fits what you do.

also, moved to the certifications forum.

watch memory. You'll have some management work do to there to figure out how much each instance needs.

You can install SQL anywhere (the program files) and set the data files anywhere as well. You can move data files (detach/attach), set defaults for new databases, or ad hoc,...

A backup can run anytime. Just because you have a maintenance plan doesn't mean this is the last backup run. If someone runs an adhoc one, they break the...

Nothing's perfect and what do you mean by ssh. The remote shell? That has nothing to do with transfers, that's a way of connecting.

yes

I think you're confusing space and capacity.

RAM is a set number in the server. You can add more, but at a given time, that doesn't change. How much should...

Is the file fragmented now on disk? If so, this might help clean some of that up.

you can shrink to some xx level, you'd have to calculate that out. Remember...

Good points and I'm not sure how I'd define things. I think MS has the best support, and perhaps it's a non issue. Seems like lots of people are stilling...

Being undecided is good. At least I think so. Our legal system (should) function like that in court, I'm giving all candidates another week to do/say something that I can...

I have read through both entries and I do not believe this is plagiarism. Plagiarism ( http://www.plagiarism.org/) is copying without giving credit to the source, essentially passing off ideas as...

A spike for 4-5 minutes, while unusual, isn't necessarily a problem. You might have had a load that coincided with other loads. Were any queries running unusually long or a...

Yep, would prefer pay for service, give us more time, reasonable prices.

We don't get 10 years, we get 7, then pay for support (beyond security patches). Not that security isn't...

Guess I'm better as "Shaq Nicholson"

If you are doing single lookups, meaning if I pick X, I get these choices for X, as opposed to getting less choices for x because I selected "y" earlier,...