Jack Corbett (2/17/2012)

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I think commissions for sales people is the best way to compensate them. You provide a lower guaranteed salary so the sales people can survive...

James Goodwin (2/17/2012)

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I want to put a slightly different slant on my answer.

From the point of view of "value to the company" OF THE SALARY, a salesperson who is out...

Perhaps. If they are really...

Having purchased lots of software and seen lots of sales, I'm not sure I agree.

Use the import wizard to build an SSIS package. Only map the columns you need to the target.

Hit and miss, and this one was short. We have some long ones coming at times.

It's a...

I'm not sure, but you might specify which version to which version. Also, I would think many reports would move fine if this is a single version change.

Wow. I'll see if I can bump this to a few people to see if that's occuring on other systems.

+1

Good luck.

MS licensing can only give you an (non-legal) interpretation, which Jared mentioned. However their reading of the EULA for your case, could be legally binding either way.

Nice script, but I'd argue this isn't using T-SQL. It's using a shell command, which isn't allowed in many places.

Interesting concern. AFAIK, the sparse file doesn't actually allocate the space until it's needed, so while it might report 25GB as a size, it isn't using that space.

Fragmentation? Interesting, I...

Robert Davis (2/15/2012)

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for example, if someone tells me that they didn't prepare at all, that they just walked in and took all of the Pro level exams, then I...

The only way to do this is if you have a way of marking what new data is. Perhaps some column that marks when things have changed.

There are plenty of people using braindumps, plenty that memorize some things, and plenty that use their knowledge.

A certification isn't worthless. You use the interview to determine if someone actually...