I look mostly at how you get along with others and how you fit it. We can teach you technical skills and how to communicate, but we can't teach you...

Hold up your thumb, point it at a ruler and guess 🙂

Seriously, there's good advice above, but for a new system, it could vary wildly. It the app is successful...

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Anyplace has lots of opportunities. Check monster.com or dice.com to see where in the US or UK might have lots of open jobs.

I love long reports. When I get a request for something really outrageous, I tend to break it up or summarize things since that's what people usually want.

It's interesting to...

What is the error? I'm surprised it doesn't drop.

Is it a problem if it's disabled?

You can always start a transaction, enable the trigger, drop it, commit the transaction.

What are the problems with a striped backup? How do problems occur in Management Studio/EM with striped backups?

In 2005, how can I make a copy of a backup automatically in...

SQL Server handles the locking. There's no reason to worry about two users writing at the same time. Each connection is separate and locking occurs on a first come first...

Which version of SQL Server?

Please post questions in the appropriate forum. This isn't the place that would make the most sense. Post it in the admin forum for your version.

I don't believe you can upgrade the instance. You can install Developer Edition as another instance or you can detach your databases, uninstall Express, and then install Developer.

All upgrades or...

Haven't tried it from the 2.0 wizard, but an insert should be an insert. Check the table, look for triggers, be sure you're inserting the proper data types in the...

Why do you need this during production hours? You should have enough space free in your database to last for some period of time, a month, 6, a year, something....

I assume you're run the uninstall and deleted registry keys.

Did the cluster get uninstalled from Windows or just SQL Server?

Sorry you're having a bad day. Get some coffee.

If you rebuild your indexes, then it should update the count in sysindexes.

For transferring data, use a consistent method, and I'd select using a query from QA.

I think your boss does not understand how a log works. It's not like a log file written by IIS. It's a circular file that's used to record the transactions...