No I have not heard of that one. I will have a look at it. Thanks !

The maintenance plan stuff that was introduced in SP2 should have been there from the get go. This was in SQL 2000 and I cannot figure out why they removed...

  Thank GOODNESS they have added the cleanup of old db backups back into the db backup routine. It was a minor pain to have this split up. I will...

You MUST apply Service packs with no user connections. The SP apply will start with users in the db but eventually it will need exclusive control of SQL Server and...

I guess I would add to Point #5 The Learning Curve. If you are employed with the same company for an extended period of time and your company does not...

I wish more women were in the DBA career. Here we have had only three DBA's that were female in the 20 years I have been here.  One moved to...

Hum, Interesting. The next time this process runs I will monitor this counter. Thanks !

This is an older server with only 1 gig of memory. I am going to ask for another gig.

I installed our first SQL 2005 which was 64 bit. Yes, the tools are slower on 64 bit. I have had issues with Integration Services, called MSFT and eventually fixed...

 I have to run home and look at my CD collection, but, here is a best guess:

AC/DC - Back in Black

REO Speedwagon - High Infidelity

Pat Benatar's Greatest Hits

Joan Jett's Greatest...

Thanks. That worked. This server doesn't appear to be in that bad of shape.

OK, great I will fire it up. So, if we are paging as far as memory I should see the page count be much higher than zero I assume and...

I have installed three instances on two diff 64 bit servers w/o issue.

Quite honestly from a performance standpoint I see no great difference in the operating systems. Although, I have never done a same hardware/install on one vs. the other. At this...

Maybe I am missing something.. but in SSMgt Studio, SQL Agent, jobs. If you select the specific job history it is there... have to scroll to the right to see...