Hadn't thought about that, but it would be nice if you could use that thermal energy somehow. Maybe incorporate into some heating/cooling application?

Please don't cross post. We check all forums.

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Yes, partitioning can easy keep data separated, usually by dates, but could be by other values, and let you add rows to "part" of the table without affecting the other...

Haven't really noticed this, but I haven't messed with the system tables much. Does the login have SA rights? Are there any problems?

My guess is that it's a display issue...

If the old and new are on the same server, the backup and restore will be easy. I'd recommend you do an EXECUTE AS (look up), to allow people with...

I wish, but no. The threading models are vastly different and Microsoft has declined to rewrite it for a *Nix.

You can run Windows under VMWare or another virtualization technology...

You can have multiple columns in your primary key as well, so it could be a compound key instead of a single column.

First, please post in the appropriate forum for your version. I'll move this to the 2005 forums for now.

Second, search for sp_help_revlogin and you can use that to move logins....

Look up sp_change_users_login as well. you might need to relink the login and user.

I'd avoid these if you can. If you really need to store something, use a permanent table and store it in there. Even if you link it to a SPID...

If you have a log reader and you haven't been running in simple mode, then you can read the transaction log (live or backup) with one of the tools from...

I don't think you need local system admin privileges, but as mentioned above, you need coordination and assistance from the people that do. There are times you will have to...

Not sure that will work SQL_ORacle. You still need an account that has rights to connect to SQL Server as an administrator.

The account starting SQL Server has access, or should,...

We is the site. Sorry, thought it was fun and obvious.

The migrate jobs part is not easy and probably can't happen in a stored procedure. The backup could work, but it would need to have access to the remote sql...