I wouldn't get too down on IT as a roller coaster career. You think marketing in the corporate world is different? Sales?

Maybe lawyers and CPAs have a good growth industry,...

Just for the record, I'd encourage any of my kids to go into IT if they wanted to. In fact, I'd like to think that I encourage them to do...

Great editorial and thanks to Kathi for writing it.

I have to say that I've thought women were increasing in IT. It seems every time I go to a conference, there...

, sorry. Couldn't decide if this was theory or TSQL. Should have used CHAR() in the answer.

Kenneth,

I used to feel very strongly about what you said, but as I've gotten older, I'm not so sure.

Defining the "best" person is hard. We don't have a universal "DBA...

The PASS Summit is in Denver and it's typcially been more SQL Server focused. It's a great place if you're a DBA and we've got a couple writeups coming from...

You can also use something like this:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones/vcspart3.asp

ms_foreachdb works well with one server. When you move to multiple servers, it's a little more complex.

I tihnk banks are a good place to start, but until they get sued, and the INSURANCE companies start raising rates, they won't do much. I don't like fingerprints or...

I'm wordy, but not that wordy

At least I hope not.

Sorry, all the mason jars are full of male cow pies that will be used to power our US Gov't approved and installed generator

Interesting discussions. I've actually solicited some guest editorials next week on this, so keep an eye out and I'd love to see the discussion continued.

I'd like to think it should degrade gracefully and put up some message that things are not available now.

Phil,

If you can't connect, I'd contact MS immediately. You could try running SQLDiag, but that might fail as well.

The CD is the old data. It's been updated to work with a trace flag.

This sounds like something that DTS/SSIS would be perfect for. Have some process copy the file to both servers and then have a package to upload it.