I don't know why, but it didn't occur to me.  Thanks for the idea!

Thanks, Karl.  Does this work with 2000?  We haven't yet upgraded to 2K5, that's on my list.  Unfortunately I don't have VB installed at the moment.  I tried implementing it...

Space isn't a big issue, our largest raster DB is about 175gig and I have 163gig free on my largest partition.  We're also probably going to be doing a server...

Thanks, Steve.  I'm slowly increasing my knowledge of ArcSDE (and honestly I'd've been happy to remain ignorant ), I just found out about...

One of the things that I find incredibly frustrating is the lack of SQL Server "best practices" material from ESRI.  The guy who runs the system has all of the...

It took three hours of work, not three hours to run.  It's only 43,000 rows in the specfic table.  There were a couple of false starts, then trying to figure...

This is my nightly DBCC run, I run it through an osql job so that the full output can be captured:

use master
go

exec sp_msforeachdb @command1="print getdate() print '? checkdb' DBCC CHECKDB(?)"
go

exec...

For daily maintenance, I backup databases and transaction logs.  For monthly maintenance, I script out all my databases and jobs.  A DB script recreates everything: devices, tables, user permissions, roles,...

Thanks for the link, Clive!  I had somehow overlooked the fact that you could script jobs.  I script out all my databases on a monthly basis, now I'm adding jobs...

Have you gotten any good responses to this?  Are you still looking for info on maintenance plans?  Since you're still posting, I'm guessing that nothing has blown up on you...

I must know -- why did the VP decree that aliases is bad?  I use them all the time in all sorts of systems, including payroll.  They're nigh unto a...

Hey!  I used to be able to hold up an 80 column punch card to the light and read it!  I was proud of that former ability!

Thank you, Don, for this article.  I started looking at XML casually a few years before you wrote this and was immediately struck by the bloat.  I experimented with it...

OK, I quit.

It is now fixed, and you're not going to believe the resolution.

It was a corrupt printer driver.

I have no idea how the guy who developed it diagnosed it,...

I haven't looked into hidden objects, I doubt there are any.  I'm fairly sure there is no security in this database, I'll dig into it further.

The form is visible.  The...