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Nigel was not renewed in April 2008 as his work commitments prevented him from contributing substantially to the community in 2007. However he is well...

Haven't seen that. The task should call some sys.databases, so if the account can see the databases in that view, they should come through.

Not sure why you wouldn't see them....

Can't do it. Need to take the db offline to move the log file.

Does your machine authenticate with a domain when you VPN in?

I agree with Matt as well, and also ask that if someone hasn't made any attempt to solve something or figure it out, ask them to. We don't want to...

you need to do some math to get the results.

You can divide by 1000 to get seconds, then you'd have to divide by 60 to get minutes, and subtract...

You have good points on efficiency, and those items do matter when you compare cars. That's one good thing about the Xprize. They "charge" for electricity so that there's a...

Use SSIS, there's a data import wizard in SSMS that will help you.

This seems like homework, please ask the OP to make an attempt before you give the answer here.

One last thought, perhaps you are backing up to the same file (appending) as well. Are you using INIT in the backups?

Matt is correct, this doesn't necessarily work from remote computers by default.

there have been quite a few debates on the "green-ness" of hybrids. I think the jury's still out on whether they are better or worse for the environment overall.

Nothing on the OS is affected. The server stops and SQL does not respond to clients, but the OS isn't changed.

There should be more resources available for the OS and...

Litespeed coes with an extractor that will extract the compressed backup back to native SQL Server format and then you can perform a restore on any server.

On separate WANs, you might have networking rules preventing the port from being used.