You may, but the question was just on part of the redirection. We try to get the questions tightly focused on one area, not necessarily on the whole process.

My bad. Not used to the new categorization system.

I'll fix that.

Make sure your server has an SPN in Active Directory. Be sure the times between the SQL Server the DCs are not off.

I'm not sure, but I could see that a quota on the file server could be causing issues.

Backing up to network drives is not recommended. The SQL backup program is...

A log reader will let you "undo" transactions, basically by adding reversing transactions and let you recover back to some point in time. You'll have to "undo" everything back to...

Think of a backup set as essentially a file. You can overwrite, meaning essentially delete and recreate the file. Or you can append, which means add a second set of...

Also, can you connect with the dedicated Admin connection from the local console?

What do you mean by optimize? You need to have some sort of idea of what you're trying to achieve in order to begin. There isn't any general way of...

I've seen a few of these demos, but they're mainly for SQL Server 2008, which has the spatial datatypes for geography.

You might be able to do it with 2005, but...

Lowell,

Apologies for that. I've fixed that article and we're looking through others to try and get these corrected.

Very cool! Thanks for the info.

From what I've seen, it takes about 8 months for the first cert, then up to 18 months for all exams to get out. The last one (BI) came out...

Thanks, I'll try to figure out what's wrong there. I'm in CO and it seems to work fine here.

I think from my conversations with people, that most people still have lots of SS2K out there. As much as MS would like us to believe that SS2K5 has a...

There are different dynamics for different systems. I'd still run the same types of base metrics and then as you learn more about how the systems are performing, you can...