That is strange. I've never really been asked any strange ones. Mostly it's about me or technical ones.

I think I'd wonder about someone that asked me that question seriously. I'd...

Not sure what you mean for "recommended".

Both Litespeed and SQL Backup are good products. They work slightly different ways and are better situated in different situations.

I'd talk to both companies,...

Doh! I fixed the ad, so it's a methodology. Brian's teaching the class, so I expect the myths will be few and far between

sysjobhistory will show you where you are. sysjobs I believe shows the start time, so you can calculate the time elapsed.

Profiler monitors all activity on the server, so all queries (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE). If each user connect with their own login, then this will work. If they share...

You can possibly do this with xp_sendmail and authenticate to an SMTP mail server.

The other thing to explain to your network person is that you need alerts sent to you...

This is a little confusing. Are you trying to connect to sql server 2005 or sql server 2000?

Also, when you say you can connect with PHP, do you mean the...

Can you give some idea of the memory on the server and your setting? Also, do you mean that the server responds slow? That merges timeout or take too long...

What are the DB names?

Michael has good ideas. Be sure your statistics are up to date as well.

If you don't have two records in there, rather it would be a union of two queries.

If you ahve

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Are you querying over 200 tables? That's a problem in itself.

I'll say this. I've taken the 441, 443, and 444 exams. In the case of 441 I went in pretty cold and passed. I've done a little work with ss2k5,...

My wife says she's used Netmeeting and it's slow. She recommends http://www.box.net for quick file transfers.

Frank,

I agree that if someone doesn't do the same job at the same level, then there should be a reason for pay differences. Figuring out "sameness" is tough anyway and...