Congrats and that's very cool!

Just a bit of humor to get things started 🙂

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What does "data packed" mean?

It will change some things in those databases as this is a "patch" for SQL Server, but you will not lose any jobs or logins.

tempdb is running in Simple mode, so it should keep itself trunacated on a regular basis. The only thing that remains in there is an open transaction. If you had...

This appears to be an IE6 issue and we're looking for something else we can do.

If you paste into Word or Wordpad, it should appear ok, then it can move...

:), my mistake and a very nice post Ewan.

It has been corrected.

Is it the third file no matter which 3 files? Meaning is it the same file? Have you built other test files and verified that they work? If you rename...

From experience, I usually spent about half an hour checking servers. That was after spending hours building automated systems that could roll up disk space, errors, jobs, etc. into a...

Interesting question. I'd think so because you can restore a db from 2000 to 2005.

I don't believe you can do this directly because of the mapping of pages to logical files. My guess is you need to:

1. restore to db with 1 MDF/ 1...

First, the content will run like any other article, on the front page, in the newsletter, comments welcome. We just want to call it out so you're aware it might...

I think we had a 9th planet issue a long time ago, but it was about 5-6 years ago that there was a 10th planet issue. I think it was...

You need to use SQLCMD. SSMS and Enterprise Manager open multiple connections to the server.

DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS (table_name , index_name)