The query has been corrected to say products.

Thanks Jasmine. Fixed it and sorry for the issues.

According to my reading of this document (http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/sqlserverlicensing.mspx) and the example they give (5VM instances on a 4way box), they require 5 licenses. It reads "license per virtual processor", not...

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Thanks for the responses and I'm hope I'm not implying anyone that didn't pay is not a moral person.

It's a tough question. There is a legal and moral side to...

Boy this is hard to talk about. And I don't think anyone expressing a contrary viewpoint is wrong, it's a different frame of reference.

I'm kind of in a weird place....

Interesting replies, but as someone who's a minority, it seems that the most resistance to protection or affirmative action decisions comes from those that aren't discriminated against.

Colin,

I thought you were just observing and not necessarily believing, so I'm not picking on you. But those issues are real problems. In any one company perhaps not, but as...

Rudy,

I agree with free choice and people should pick jobs that suit them. But they have to be able to make the choice. A woman or minority should have the...

Colin,

I have to say that I think your observations are blatantly discriminatory and they are one of the reasons that woman and minorities have problems in the workplace.

It might seem...

I've used a slightly different approach, using DTS to drive some T-SQL procedures to perform backups. However the advice above would work great as well.

Be sure you connect with local...

I don't do it, preferring to run shrinks when I need them.

The service accounts are for those programs to log themselves into Windows and start. If a client is connecting, they will use the account they logged onto the domain with.

The...

It comes everyday. If you don't get it everyday, likely it's a filter somewhere. Try adding us to the Safe senders or Whitelist.

I'm not sure I consider the Microsoft guys the experts for a shop using SQL Server. They've developed it and know the ins and outs of the code better than...