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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...

Yep, agree with Paul. A web app backed by SQL Server is an example of multiplexing.

Gail's series, GRant's book, Craig Freedman's blog. all good places to learn about this.

As Gail says, time and place for everything.

http://blogs.msdn.com/craigfr/

Likely you need a combination of datepart (turns date into numbers) and then possibly a CAST.

You are multiplexing here. This is the same as a web server talking to users and only talking to SQL. Still the users are using SQL Server indirectly through a...

Jack is correct. The diff stores changes SINCE the full. So it doesn't have a baseline on which to work. A diff is used to reduce the number of log...