Block the users from the database with the firewall. More rules, not so elegant, but it solve the issue.

Right now, there's no way to change this. There have been suggestions...

Perhaps put them in a separate filegroup? Maybe then work with that separately?

Or add an "image" filegorup, put the data in, then add another one at some point, delete the...

There was a way in SQL 2000 to perform an MD5, one way encryption of data, and ENCRYPT() works on my SS2K instance.

However this cannot be decrypted. You can "compare"...

No standard way of doing this. If you have Enterprise edition, I'd look at table partitioning and moving those older partitions to separate file groups.

You can make a view instead...

If you are in simple mode then your logs will be truncated at each checkpoint, and space used by committed transactions marked as free.

However, you cannot recover work beyond your...

Rinu's explanation is the best.

The advice is to run with full mode, unless you need to run a bulk operation, in which case, you can switch (online) to bulk...

I would guess that most people would be using only one of these, so I'm not sure you will get a comparison.

I don't know about the CBTs, but the books...

I know that GIS is heavily used, but I'm definitely not aware of how extensively it's implemented. The "finding directions" and mapping is stuff I've seen, but the shortest paths,...

SQL Server 2005 is a single instance. It is self contained. If you install multiple instances, they are all installed on Windows as separate pieces of software.

I'm not sure if...

It is interesting, but I don't see anywhere that they require for the certification. The prerequisites make some sense, but it needs to have some way to verify those items...

Please post newsletter issues in the Suggestions forum rather than here. It's mostly a client issue (mail client), not OS.

Nothing is free. That's a given, and I don't want to...

I spent some time quizzing the developer on this at TechEd. They didn't go for the best compression, but rather they wanted good compression at high performance.

There are all sorts...

Jim,

thanks and we've considered it, but part of what we want to do is build the site up. We could include the next post, but that's more bandwidth (we burn...

SQL Server should prompt for name and password with SQL Auth unless you have them saved. That's the way it goes. You can pass them in with the connection string...

You'll have to make an attempt and give us a little more direction.

CREATE PROCEDURE myProc

@param1 int = 1

as

is the starting point to create a procedure with a parameter....