I think Lowell has given some great suggestions. I use ORDER BY NEWID() for randomization as well when we do contests here.

It's definitely an AD security error. Google for it and you should find a couple solutions that hopefully will match up with yours.

How many services are running on the server. Are there really 4 instances? I'd be sure there isn't something mucked up on the server as well.

Good luck Anthony in making a change. If it's a bad place, then I'd recommend leaving.

I'd caution you though that the grass isn't always greener at the next company. Move...

Good point on the Excel code.

Every product has bugs and I'd consider this one just as I'd consider Excel's driver not sending over more than 255 character.

What processes are using logs of memory?

30MB isn't necessarily a lot of memory

Good points there, but I guess I'd like to hear more about why this is a bad move or where it makes sense and where it doesn't. If you're driving...

I don't think it was Bert, but thanks to him for pointing this out as a potential problem.

Whoopsie! It's corrected and I guess the spell checker only does so much

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/bknight/spattachdb.asp

Not sure. There's always half.com.

I get a scheduled maintenance page at halfpricecomputerbooks.com

Windows will always have a lot of processes running. Most of them take very little CPU, so I'm not sure what the problem is. If you run Task Manager and...

In SQL Server each stored procedure is like your own function and they can call each other, but htey are not "grouped" together in anyway. Instead you've had to use...

I'm not sure if the code Seygiy provided is right, but he has the correct idea for trigger design. Don't assign variables from your inserted/deleted tables. Instead use a query...

You can always set up a job to scan for autogrow being set in each db and email yourself if it is. Doesn't prevent it, but it does allow you...