Be careful of mirrored backups. If the mirror fails for some reason (network errors), the local isn't completed.

Thanks for the debate and this was a can of worms. I think it affects some professions (doctors, lawyers, IT), people that don't have regular hours and can get called...

SQLBill did a good job, but I still see some missing words. (get A better idea)

As for your questions:

1. The sentences are ok, definitely need spelling/grammar checks. Missing "a", "an",...

Please don't post the questions in the subject. That's a descriptor, but the question should be repeated or stated clearly in the post.

As mentioned above, just the Workstation stuff, maybe BOL.

IF you need SSIS, install it.

Looks like you have the names wrong in the ActiveX script. While you're adding them in the order, I thought there was a name mapping.

I have a friend that's moved a lot of servers to VMWare, including some production SQL Servers. They use SAN storage and so far performance has been good. I'm trying...

Thanks for your opinion and it is noted.

However I think this site has proven it's value over the last 6 years to thousands of DBAs all around. I understand that...

I'm not an Oracle guy, but isn't Oracle optimized for cursors? Isn't that it's strength when working through sets of data?

If so, then does it matter if you program that...

First, please write with punctuation and explain clearly what is wrong. It doesn't help you or us to try and save keystrokes and run all your words together.

You need to...

third vote here for Jeff's suggestion. Use names that describe what the procedure does, not what it accesses.

You can set up some monitoring using alerts to look for certain events to fire, but not necessarily all Windows events. If you need something that occurs in Windows, use...

Good luck on the next one, but I'd recommend you beef up your DBA skills at least so you know how to answer questions like that. These days lots of...

Sorry 🙁

You can see them here: http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,pg=0&s=26744&a=222190,00.asp

There are lots of scripts here on the site in the Scripts section that do these things. You can search a few out and modify them to suit your needs.