Documenting is hard, often because there's no good place to keep documentation handy. I prefer ER diagrams, but you really need some snippets from Word or someplace handy to note...

Wow, great replies and thanks for the debate. Looks like most of you are probably better with this than I am.

Peter, didn't know that. Where is this in Outlook?

William, it's...

Phil,

I feel for you and you have some sympathies.

First, get that diagram up on the wall where you can see it.

Now, as you look over the app, report, or whatever...

A little late here, but throwing tables together is database design. Not good design, but it's design.

Doing a design well means looking at the things Jeff has mentioned. I'd mention...

Best of luck and sorry, that was what I got from someone at MS. My guess is there's a redirect somewhere that's popping SP4 regular.

A good reason to always keep...

Might check out this:

http://www.sswug.org/sswugtv/seeshow.asp

Mock interview series on the right

The reservations are probably cheap knowing Antares. It will be the shipping cost of heating oil and power you'll have to worry about 😛

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That is interesting. Sounds like diesel submarine technology.

Wonder if there's a snorkel if you hit deep sand 🙂

I got some conflicting ideas from people at MS. Someone was going to try and dig in (and blog) on this, but they've been out of the 2000 code for...

I'm slightly confused. Do you mean 2 drives as in 2 LUNs? Or 2 physical drives?

If tempdb is used a lot, it could benefit from a separate LUN, but it...

Does this help: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=598396&SiteID=1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328354

I agree with Yvan, but the short answer is you can't stop someone with sa or sysadmin permissions from changing the objects or permissions.

It really doesn't matter how it was installed. This an administrative license only. What matters is that you have the administrative licenses in a file cabinet and you are abiding...

#2 first: User sp_changeobjectowner to reset the owner of the new table to Lester.

#1: Did the db originally have 2 files for each? Lots of people like this, makes it...