I can see your point, but I still quibble with the word "scam".  The way I understand a scam to be is that you pay money, get nothing in return...

But the last time I checked, you couldn't really log into the actual server (OS) with the SA account, even though the SA account has those privledges.  You have to...

There are hundreds of domain registry companies in existance, most of them legit.  They compete for business, sending out emails and snailmail about their services.  The name and address information...

Unfortunately, I see events like this all the time.  They're called Vendor Shows.  It doesn't matter what industry you're in (software, hardware, rental, industrial, etc.), everyone holds a yearly event...

The problem with applying things through GPOs is that while many DBAs may have local Windows Admin permissions, rarely --if ever-- does a DBA have Domain Admin permissions or Admin...

To have jobs run across multiple servers, you don't need Admin access.  You need a plain vanilla domain user (not domain admin) account for the SQL Services to use and...

Another instance when a DBA may have local admin rights on a box is when the DBA is responsible for "soft" server administration support.  This has been the case in...

If you're not talking about a Database Restore, please be more specific in what you're trying to do.

Carsten,

We have a job (which I cannot post because I did not write it) which monitors our job execution times.  It tracks the average run time of each job in...

Someone else suggested Computer Associate's Erwin diagram tool.  I ditto this as it has a great feature I really enjoy using.  Once you model your database, you can reverse engineer...

Ah. Okay.  Sorry about the misinterpretation. 

At least you got it working.

Ah-ha!  That actually makes sense.  And explains why it keeps resetting everytime I look at it.

Thanks, Crispin.  I'm mailing out your cookie now. @=)

What's different in the OS / Server configuration between your QA environment and your Production environment.  This is probably what's causing the issue.

I'm guessing it has to do with...

This is a very interesting topic.  Even more so because this subject crosses career lines and isn't an IT Only problem.  When I was in Customer Service, I had some...

Oddly enough, my first real SQL DBA job was the toughest to get for me too.  No one wanted to hire me because I didn't have enough SQL Server experience,...