8 disks is a lot, and I'd lean towards the 4 R1 volumes, but how busy is the database? If it's not stressed that much you might never see a...

Express is a production database, but on a personal level. It's designed to be used on a desktop, so if you have a production app that stores data on a...

That's what I suggest. Remove the constraints (or disable), delete, turn back on.

What's a "promotional DBA"

Do you have more information on what you're trying to achieve? Honestly this sounds like a test question, and I'd like to see you have produced some DDL or sample...

The space statistics sometimes don't update correctly or on the time you want. I haven't ever worried as this is a trend, longer term number and not a spot number.

The...

We're trying to nail this down.

Donations don't work since we have set gifts (book, shirt) that we give away to everyone, not to mentioned prizes that we purchase. We need...

Great points and this is an interesting debate. But it's not black and white.

Functionality has to be 100%. Or what the client needs the software to accomplish. Performance/speed/whatever we measure,...

It sounds like we're all saying something similar. You want to have the best code you can write, but it also has to get done.

The thing you can't do is...

From what I've heard, RC0 is tuned and ready. Only critical bugs left to be fixed. I don't think there's anything critical like it doesn't work, but more last minute...

Yep, vacation is vacation. Shouldn't need to be bothered, and I don't think there's a lot of competition for good people. Not enough to go around.

The problem is what's "right"?

It's tough to decide and honestly I'm not sure how many places I'd say that something is "right" and not just slightly "better". I don't think...

I have removed the link and am sending notes to publishers as well. This is not acceptable.

Authors cannot make a living on books, but this is supplemental income for them...

How are you encrypting things? Really you need the same algorithm on the server to provide the decrpytion. You could use one-way encryption, like MD5, and then just compare the...

Honestly, I would get more disk, backup locally and then copy to a remote server.

My method of handling this in the past is to backup (full and logs) to the...