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.

The error is because CREATE PROCEDURE needs to be the first thing in the batch. after the "Use Test", you need a "GO" to break the batches.

You could do a RAISERROR and get some info, but other than that, I've checked with the MVP groups and there's no way to do this with PRINT. Someone did...

Agree with DAvid. Show us some work, some examples, DDL, data, etc. along with what you've tried and why it doesn't work. We're happy to help point you in the...

You can do this, but it's not recommended. Any network hiccup will result in this failing. Better to back up to a local drive and then copy to a remote...

What is your question? Does Google pay better? They might, but it depends on the individual.

We don't use a scripting language per se. You've asked a question that doesn't make sense.

The site is programmed in ASP.NET and C#.NET, but not scripted. Perhaps you could count...