We plan to keep them here and Jumpstart as well. Jumpstart runs on advertising as does this site, so that's the cost.

Nothing is for free, or almost nothing. It just...

I'm honestly not sure what I want. There has to be a balance between too many meetings and too little information.

For the deployment guys (production, operations), going to a...

If this is SQL 2000, go download Log Rescue from Red Gate (I work for them, it's free) and it might be able to read the T-log or log backup...

Congratulations!

It is important to use RAID with SQL Server.

You need to provide more information. both fit in different spots. R0+1 is a superset of R1.

Do you know how these two Raid levels are setup?

It is now!

Is the account a sysadmin in SQL Server? Should be by default, but that can be changed.

You'd probably need to implement some regular expression search to do this. Plenty of CLR procs on the Internet that can help here.

Otherwise, not sure how you'd wildcard this.

With 2005/2008, you can encrypt sensitive data, 2008 gives you TDE. you can use certificates and assign them to certain logins/users for decryption, which gives you some control.

DDL triggers and...

Derek,

That's part of the idea of the QOD. It's not designed so that you get everything right and prove you're the SQL Server god. We get some questions in there...

I'm not sure what you mean by code1 or 2 changed. It's a little confusing to follow your example.

Have you tried distinct to limit the records and then looking for...

Read how this function works: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/abouttn/flash/tips/tips_112304.mspx

It returns a bitmask of the columns. So image you have 8 columns (numbered in the order they exist in the table). You get 1...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/abouttn/flash/tips/tips_112304.mspx

This is one reason I really avoid the third party backups like that. The compression tools (Litespeed, Red Gate, etc), are convertable to native format. Some of the others aren't.