You could always start one :w00t:

You have to try and collaborate, try and help, but at the same time you have to meet your responsibilities.

Management has to see this, perhaps by dividing responsibilities and letting...

I have friends who think that outtakes are the editorials!

You and my kids like those the best.:hehe:

I'd argue that having command line options is a part of usability. Just like every program I wrote years ago had to respond to "/?" from the command line, just...

Not sure about the Java driver, but that typically is a communication/network type error.

3.24GB of RAM? Is this a 3GB or 4GB machine?

There are no real configuration settings that you need to change. However it completely depends on what you are doing with...

It's not that I don't want to go uphill, but there doesn't seem to be much uphill and close to the convention center. Much more if you head down towards...

I'll second the advice above.

Users have no rights to tables unless they are granted. If they are granted as part of a role or rights, then you can use DENY as listed above.

That will create a bunch of stuff in text files, but it won't get it into SQL Server.

It would help if we knew what the OP wanted to accomplish.

Look for something open in tempdb as well. The database should be in simple mode, so it should clear the log at each checkpoint.

If SQL Server is running, meaning the service is running, can you connect to "(local)"?

Also, it installs under Program Files, look for the SQL Server log files, and you will...

There is no SQL Server mode. There is mixed mode, both Windows and SQL authentication, and Windows only mode, for only Windows authentication.

There is no default user and password. The...

That's what I'd think. You have another process already setup for log backups, and that will interfere with log shipping. If you log ship, you basically need to disable other...

Most of this stuff you would get from a command line or WMI if you wanted it. SQL Server would then access that the same way, with an XP_CMDSHELL or...