as stated earlier if you remove builtin\administrator you will be able to restrict the server guys. But there is a loophole . anyone member of local admin group in the...

You can use SQL server 2005 native column encryption methods to encrypt/decrpyt the data .

Until someone knows the keys even if this is restored in another server its nearly impossible...

It depends how many rows are there in the table prior to 2009.

I had a similar situation long back with a table size around 36gb.

I did a select into a...

based on OS version 32 or 64 and the amount of memory you might have to

1)Make necessary changes in Boot.ini -- i mean /PAE /3GB : enough info is...

Why don't you add another column say "Language" and while inserting rows in the table insert a value say

"HINDI","ENGLISH" .... This way you would be able to get a count...

Thanks Praveen.I was too planning to upgraded one of our critcal server to sp4 . This would help me if i face similar issues.