Katie Walker (10/31/2007)

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... I've also had fun Remotely logging in to someone's computer and watching them type and then start typing more. Then they come running to me and swear...

And sadly, this system is far from well-written code. 😀

I went Mac in April '07 and have no regrets. My current laptop is a 15" MacBook Pro with Parallels. I upgraded the ram to 4 gig from...

Lynn Pettis (1/28/2009)

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And why do we have this problem, comes down to LEADERSHIP. Example, look at our politicians, and it doesn't matter if they are Federal, State, or Local...

I operated a time/charge billing system for a few years, and if you want to put together a database to store this in, assuming you can't make it fit the...

GSquared (1/15/2009)

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Loner (1/15/2009)

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10:15 - messing around on SQL Server Central

10:21 - help desk ticket #35104

11:30 - lunch

12:50 - building view dbo.JoesNewReport

13:07 - emergency help desk ticket #542138

13:17 - building view...

David Reed (1/15/2009)

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Wayne West (1/15/2009)

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Old habits die hard. I spent my formative years as a DBA in a 4.21/6.5 environment where you did everything by hand. It warn't...

Manie Verster (1/14/2009)

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... I am clearly not as salted with SQL Server as what you are but I use maintenance plans to do my backups and it uses the dbname_yyyymmdd_sequencenumber...

I always verify all backups at the...

I both like and don't like the concept of the backup file containing the date of backup, right now I don't code the date into the file name on our...

Steve Jones - Editor (1/13/2009)

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Wayne,

Backing up all system dbs to one file actually makes some sense. You'd likely want all of these together in a DR situation. Thanks for that...

Wow. That'd...

I back up all three system databases to a single file and don't have a problem with that, otherwise each DB backs up to its own file nightly with overwrite....

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blandry (11/18/2008)

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I apologize in advance for my comments (a little bit), and mean no insult directly at any DBA but...

Do you ever take a moment and think about how many...