Is this Windows 2000? I've had issues there with Perfmon. Not sure if it still does it in W2K3 or W2k8.

Very strange. Is it always the same tables that are affected? Could there be an owner issue?

Is the data just gone, meaning it looks like the commands were never executed.

Can you show an attempt. We are seeing more and more test or interview questions and we don't want to give you the answer, we want to help you learn.

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John is right, we want to see some attempt.

As a hint, think NEWID()

6GB is a large log file. I've seen larger, but your system should be extremely busy to fill this.

Thanks, but this wasn't me. It's Tim Mitchell who wrote it, so send the kudos his way.

I think the Zone is learned, but it's self-learned and over time. I started...

Pick up any good SQL Server 2005 book and you'll learn a lot. Use the BooksOnline from msdn, and it has the documentation to help you learn.

There aren't a lot...

It is hard to get 6%, but you can find bonds and diversify to get the return. Granted it's not every year and this past year (and possibly next) might...

That's it, there's an excitement when 10,000 people cross the floor between sessions.

Just didn't feel that way this year and probably won't next year in LA. Tell them to go...

That's pretty good. There are a few others I've seen elsewhere, but this is a nice joke parody of the Coke v Pepsi challenges.

I'd not think that cross training is prohibited, but cross training to some people.

You can't have the dev DBA take over for the production DBA. The Windows sysadmin or someone...

Glad to see you supporting the authors. Many of them speak for free, give up time away from family and career, to help others. Books provide some income.

Feel free to...

Are you running the SQL 2000 Profiler? I've seen some bugs where some filters just didn't work.

you could also use something like this:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/exchangefromsqlserver/1526/

Be careful of automating too much of attachments. This can be a security issue if someone can send an email and you import it...

Glad you enjoyed them. I also blogged from a few sessions. Didn't get to that many because of commitments, but I have a few up here: http://blogs.sqlservercentral.com/steve_jones/default.aspx