Brandie,

If you don't pass easily, I'll be very surprised. Sounds like you're well prepared.

More sources probably help, but keep in mind that the official books tend to be written early on, so as the exam develops, sometimes they're missing information.

You definitely need to...

Got you beat!

We have a real man's dog: http://www.dkranch.net/images/dogs/200701_dogs.jpg

Box.net is good for transfers. That's what I use it for. Upload something, pull it down from elsewhere and then delete it...

Spring thaw? Won't the battery be dead by then? Send them a note for a diesel version!

I had a server, but it was slightly flaky, so it's down now. Right...

Bob,

You're welcome to borrow the circular saw and enlarge that mail slot on the front door

Maybe iRobot will make you a Roomba...

cuckoo for cocoa puffs? peeing in your cereal? A breakfast fetish of some sort, Matt?

This forum is kind of a "off the reservation"...

Johan,

Whether you are correct or not, it would be nice to acknowledge those lost.

I was hoping we're have more discussion on data centers and unexpected issues rather than anything...

While I'm sure there are cases where this applies, it could easily be abused as well. The US is a little sue-happy at times and I'm not sure this should...

It's good to see people that believe this is as horrible as I think. There's definitely blame to go around as passwords should have been changed ASAP when someone in...

I was hoping for some good SQL Server comments, but maybe we just like picking on Oracle

How about these:

I love that SQL Server...

If this is just a modification, you might want to submit it as a script.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Scripts/AddScript.asp

Bob is correct. The word from MS engineers is don't shrink the DB. Shrink the log if needed, but not the db. Can mess up indexing efficiency (in terms of...

sysadmins alias to dbo.

Remove the builtin_admins from the sysadmin group.

You get the value from the "INSERTED" trigger. Meaning something like this:

create trigger ...

for update

as

update audit_table

set val = i.val

from inserted i

where i.table_id = audit_table.table_id

There have been great suggestions in this thread, but I'd submit that your hardware is likely very underpowered for this setup. If you really have that many connections, you need...