I wish they would have given some details of the hardware/software behind the scenes... What op. system ?  What RDBMS ?

Some serious db sizes. We have two 3 TB Oracle dbs (growing by 300 gig a week now), two 1 TB Oracle dbs and a DB2 WHSE that is 1...

  I don't love it but it pays good and jobs are always going to exist in IT. Would I recommend it to my son ?  Maybe... maybe not. Bang for...

I know I am all confused by all of this myself. Good article. Yesterday I went to Microsofts Website in downloads for SQL 2005 and ALL I see is SP2......

I have some cluster experience but not with 2005. In 2000 basically you backup all dbs and stop all unneccessary services on the server and all user activity. Leave SQL...

Our home PC I backup IE Favs, email addresses, my pictures, my docs and a couple of other minor things to a flash drive once a month and put it...

Remember, if you are using the Mgt. Studio on a PC and NOT the server you will not see the new option. The client tools on any PC will need...

Restore verify only checks to see that the backup set is complete and that all volumes are readable. However, RESTORE VERIFYONLY does not attempt to verify the structure of the...

There is a modification of the restore db command that you can run on the db backup file in the Query tool that will tell you if the db backup...

In SP2 of SQL 2005 basically what it is is they added it as a task you can put a check in the box to execute the cleanup task as...

We have one SQL 2005 install here, test and prod. It is 64 bit SQL 2005 SP1 standard edition. The only sort of gotcha I have encountered in 64 bit...

Is it me or does it appear that Microsoft is a little sloppy in SQL 2005? I have been disappointed in finding so many simple problems with the RTM, SP1,...

Baseball is the only sport I enjoy. I live in Cols Ohio and am a Cincinnati Reds fan. I took today off and will watch the game on TV.. a...

I was toying with the idea of that myself. I used DTS to bring the table definition/data from DB2 and that is how it created it.

Thanks for the answer....

That is it !!! Thanks, I was drawing a blank for some reason on it....