truncate is one of those strange ones. I'd go with David's suggestion of Execute AS if you must do this.

As an FYI, I got a Kindle two weeks ago and have been blogging a bit on it. The latest is here, a two week review:http://blogs.sqlservercentral.com/steve_jones/archive/2008/09/12/kindle-the-two-week-followup.aspx

It's been awhile, so someone with more recent experience might need to explain this, but

a share is supposed to be a common copy. I think we used shares to...

Simon, you must not be married :w00t:

I never rejoined code, as an FYI. Stuff branched for a particular release and then remained there. Change were always on the main branch.

That fit that particular development cycle, but...

Bad as in bad or as in "Dy-no-mite!, I'm Baaaaddddddd"

Thanks for all the well wishes. My birthday isn't today, but soon, and I'll come back and read everything.

My wife actually just asked me the other day (in between the...

Have you rebooted lately? I've seen plans just go out the window some times. Have you checked a plan on the development system?

The yellow circle is a feature of Camtasia.

Mark,

The problem is that this guy might have been "successful" as a DBA at his last job. Perhaps another group ran backups using Tivoli or something like that and he...

I wrote a series on this:

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

http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql_backup/offers/exceptional_dba_awards.htm?utm_source=dba_awards&utm_medium=button&utm_content=being_exceptional&utm_campaign=sqlbackup

try this one.

We ran a fairly busy shop with 9 people and had no issues. I didn't mind VSS, but we kept things simple and it worked well for 2-3 medium sized...

Are you using the site search (google in the upper right), or the forum search above (next to My Posts and Home)?

I've heard other countries are starting to have more and more legal battles as we do in the US.

It's easy to say this is a gray area, but how do...