The mirror is unusable as it is in recovering mode all the time. Basically it is like you have restored the a backup and are working your way through the...

I don't think they have a legal basis to republish, but the indexing for searching may be legal. It's an interesting idea and I'm not sure how I feel about...

My understanding is what Tim mentioned. There isn't a zero byte file there, but one that somehow contains schema information and possibly pointers back to data, but essentially no "user"...

2.0 contains a number of new framework items that are built into VS2005 and SS2K5. I know on the ASP.NET side, there are page inheritences that are important, but haven't...

Yelena,

Interesting and glad that works. For me, however, I found that writing something reinforces it. Also, when I have to rewrite something, it's annoying and spurs me to get it...

and no one liked my story??

Greg,

That may be true and I hope that they sent out lots of them. I had the person reporting this say he got one this week and I had two...

I've done both sides as well, and I've actually had a few good technical interviews given to me. The best was doubleclick where 3 guys interviewed me, round robin around...

Some of those things are also written to the Windows event logs, or can be configured to do so. If you have a tool to monitor those, it works well.

You can limit the number of connections, but by default there is no limit. And as Gabor mentioned, it depends. 5 people can kill a server or 5000 can run...

Make sure you and the server are running under admin rights. I've had issues when things weren't.

Security is an issue and opening SQL to the Internet can be troublesome. Having your SQL ports open, which is all you really need to do, would work. You could...

The FROM command has forward slashes instead of backslashes.

Keep in mind the server is sensitive to network issues, so this might fail. A copy is probably worth the time since...

Haven't done any work with SSL here, but I suspect that there is some certificate problem. Do you need SSL connectivity?

I think WA is slower, but we're talking ms and only on connection. The DCs definitely come into play and if you have them separated from the client and SQL...