I'm sure traffic is much worse in places other than Cambridge. It's felt small, and a contained craziness to the driving. I'm just not used to people going up on...

Rob,

It's just here to teach you something about the product, not propose a solution. If we had E, then everyone would answer and not look it up

Good you like your job, James and the extra hours are fun when you do.

good resources and you might be right. I know it's worked for me in some simple projects, but the time to get up to speed was long. Much longer...

A bullet to the disk drive? You hunting moose up there in Alaska?

It's so those hard smashes will leave a rug burn!!!

Fuzz on a tennis ball? Who cares is the answer, unless you're interviewing for...

Michael,

That's a good point and I hadn't thought about ETL becoming more a developer's area. However far SSIS has improved the ETL capabilities of SQL Server, it's also left behind...

Expecting more hours is definately illegal, but it's often assumed.

It can be hard either way. Taking care of errands, meeting the cable guy, etc. are easier when there are two...

Using full scale disk encryption, like Pointsec, is a good start, but I don't think developers should have real corporate data on their laptops. Obfsucate or scramble the data for...

Modern Physics in 21 days?

I did not like Particle Physics in my college days. I somehow figured out the math and could solve the problems, but didn't understand the meaning...

, actually I work in journalism now. Not sure how I got to this place after bartending in college, an economics degree, a hatred...

Simon,

you're right on there. Extra hours typically mean someone didn't plan properly. The true "it just broke" emergencies are few and far between.

I believe only in the ALTER or RESTORE statements.

You can also open each and then "Save AS" to the new server or SAve As a Structured Storage file in the file system and move them.

Sugesh' technique is the...

A few things. First, what caused the log to grow? This stores a record of the work done in the db, and if there's a lot of work (inserts, updates,...