I tend to agree with Grant, overall. Experience matters more.

If you want to learn more, as Gail mentioned, get the Masters. Otherwise, go to work.

Biased as well, but here's my take.

Summit - Excellent networking, SQL Server focused. Sessions are a little hit and miss since they are volunteers, and less experienced speakers. The choices...

An excellent response to Celko: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1310443.aspx

You cannot do that. The point of a hash is a one way function applied to a password. It's possible there are multiple passwords that could hash to the same...

I would follow Gail's advice. Take log backups on the primary. Don't truncate the logs. Once you have those set up, if you need to shrink the logs, you can...

You probably want to group the data by date first, then the other columns, but are you showing all the data for a week?

If I have

Red, 4, 4/1/2012

Blue, 5, 4/2/2012

Blue,...

jay-h (6/4/2012)

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I did not understant what IBM's objection was when I read the news article. How does this differ from doing a Google or Bing search?

Not that Siri interests me...

tilew-948340 (5/31/2012)

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I don't want to argue too much on that because I am no expert. I found this site that explains why a 32 bit OS would not run...

Doctor Who 2 (5/31/2012)

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No, GSQuared, I haven't tried LinkedIn. I am on it, but tend to spend my time there either interacting with others on questions, answering them, etc....

I hope not

A few email replies

#1 - Has been a good job, but things have changed and it's time to move on.

#2 - f)negotiating with someone else right now for a new...

You can set up tracing or auditing in SQL Server 2008, but it can be a tremendous amount of data. It depends on what you capture.

If you want data changes,...

Yep, I'd do what Anthony suggested. Data Compare isn't that expensive, and it will help you figure out what to move between the databases. It could be cheaper than manually...

Did you set up replication recently? It does require a PK of some sort on tables, and I believe it adds a column if there isn't one already.

Red Gate offers a couple tools to help here. Object Level Recovery can help, but really you want to look at what you are restoring and make sure it's correct....