Van is gone, so I'm not doubling up.

We have personal choice and I certainly wouldn't want to be told I couldn't buy something new, or newer. I'm sure you wouldn't...

I have posted this for Microsoft in the MVP area. Hopefully they'll see it.

You need what you need. Either rights (meaning administrator or extra rights) or someone on call to fix things you can't.

I've gone back and forth on this over the years....

I agree with crever. No need to do it if you don't need the space.

Doesn't matter. Go with what you're more comfortable with.

I did 443, 444, 441, 431 in that order.

Keep the login and the user the same if possible to reduce issues when troubleshooting.

I'd go with what your company uses for email names

I don't think so, but I'm not sure I've seen this before. If the name of the logins changes, I think ithas to be changed in SQL Server. Note that...

exec xp_cmdshell 'dir c:\'

Hyperbac, Red Gate, Litespeed, all work well.

The latter two are cluster aware, not sure about Hyperbac.

The registration is something we require to get an idea of the audience and satisfy the advertisers on the site. It has driven the growth of this site to be...

I think they've done a good job with the "free stuff", especially with 2005 where it doesn't all install by default. I'm not sure how you get new versions of...

Wim,

Good luck and be sure you think through the additional benefits the consulting company gives you as well as downtime. That's the reason the rate is high. If the client...

Leave it as full

Add transaction log backups

Use INIT, do not pile backups on top of another in one file.

Are these all on local drives? Or are some network?

I'm with Will. That's how I handle things, though I'm usually a select top 10 * from xxxx

for myself.