There are lots of opportunities. This past weekend was on in CO: http://coloradogivecamp.org/

Feel free to participate or organize your own in your area.

I would guess many people could, but probably not quickly. I do like that we teach...

Greg.Jackson (4/25/2013)

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Steve,

I'm a religious follower of the SQLServerCentral.com site. Also thrilled to hear that you are coming here to Fargo. (That's what I call home.) You'll be disappointed to hear...

SQL Server 2008 R2 is not slower running backups. In all likelihood you have some configuration or hardware issue with your connection to the SAN. Have you looked at wait...

SQL 2000 has a version column. You can use that if you store the previous value, which would require some job that grabs this daily and looks for changes.

You could do that. Give you some abstraction.

If it's acceptable, you could let someone edit/add information in Access linked to the table.

If locks are an issue, you could have them use Access in staging table and then...

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server+2005/64547/

lshanahan (4/23/2013)

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Maybe it's little old me, but I was surprised at the very least at the statement: "Having knowledge about the way your business works, the way they use data,...

Raju Lalvani (4/23/2013)

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The first step would be to master the current development platform you are working on before spending time on other skills. With each development platform gettiing bloated with...

When the...

I would agree with Gail on the shrink.

As for the size, there is no right size. If you are getting 2GB daily, 2GB might be fine for the size. I...

Your service account may not have rights to that path. Not all accounts will. You'll have to determine if that's the case.

If the db is recovering, you will have to...

You don't need to map a drive. The service account for SQL Server logs into Windows. It can't see your drive mappings when you've logged in with RDP.

Instead, run the...

You don't need to take anything offline to run a backup. If you take the database offline, you can't run a backup in SSMS.

As far as the mapped drives, the...