Best of luck with the new job.

Sometimes you ride a bad wave of luck and have trouble with jobs. It's happened to me before. Do something good for someone else...

And if you shrank the database, you might have caused a lot of fragmentation. Be sure you reindex.

Can't go below original size, AFAIK.

Build a new db, script things out, xfer data.

I think we have to agree to disagree.

you're citing specific instances to show a general problem, but that's not the case. 4 digit years might cause problems, might not, might...

Ron, send the home address to me via PM and I'll look into it. Having some strange issues with the email process at times, usually Blacklist related, but it could...

Index things? Rewrite the query? Both are possible ways to speed things up, but without more details, can't really give more advice.

What's the query and the table DDL (and indexes)?

Tend to agree with Grant. Certification allows you to prove that you've learned things and been tested, but if you can't perform the things because you crammed and didn't learn...

What is being run? It's possible you have executed something that is waiting for user input, and you'll never get that.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Distributed+Queries/anintroductiontolinkedservers/1366/

They are both important, and hopefully quality brings consistency, but if you step into a situation where you have inconsistency and a lack of quality code, what do you tackle...

I think this is more of the Google model than RAC, trying to get some amount of copies of data for redundancy of access. It's an interesting idea and I'm...

I think definitions 1, 2, and 3 are the ones to apply here.

How can you tell rejected ideas would ever be better or worse? Presumably someone rejected them because they...

Loner,

I know you've had a bad experience, but not every company is like that. There are lots of good companies out there and many of them will hire DBAs, especially...

Duplicate: discussed here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic504243-148-1.aspx

I don't think there's an easy way to do this as the user needs to be able to select from sysdatabases to choose master, tempdb, etc. along with their database.

The...