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...

Kalvin,

I think there is a mixed environment out there. Lots of people are excited about 2005 and many companies will move because they have software assurance, they don't want to...

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I guess I'd argue that MS is subtlely been anti-open with their products, but that's me.

I think you should use the platform that works best and if it claims to...

They better get some tents then.

We're selling and moving to a place with less bedrooms.

It's not that kept up

Need to mow some grass. That horse won't eat it fast enough