Steve, I think you’re being too nice. I’m much more blunt about this. It comes down to plain negligence and laziness. I know this is going to ruffle some feathers...

Can you express exactly what you're attempting to check for (do you have a T-SQL query for this)? On the Database facet there are two properties: LastBackupDate and LastLogBackupDate. Are...

Here are three must attend sessions:

SMS07: Microsoft SQL Server Code Name "Kilimanjaro" Application and Multi-Server Management

Microsoft announced the application and multi-server management investments in November 2008. With these investments, organizations...

First, creating a taxonomy is hard work. Don't forget this.

Second, all good taxonomies go from general to specific. The primary debate thus far seems to be on how to...

** For full disclosure, I'm a group program manager on the SQL Server Manageability Team.

In my 15+ years of experience in IT and software development I’ve never found the Holy...

I spent over 8 years in IT before moving to the ISV commercial software world. During my time in IT I did a part-time MBA program (I went to school...

I think the interesting question is: what do you want in SQL2K5 SP3?

Hey Steve,

Your mom may have purchased shares in SUNW but she now owns shares in JAVA. Sun changed its ticker symbol a few weeks ago.

Cheers,

Dan

SQL2K5 SSMS and SQL2K8 SSMS cannot be installed SxS.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1746040&SiteID=1

Cheers,

Dan

Hi Steve,

In reference to this comment: "Now if we could get [a minimal install] for SQL Server, that would be cool". Can you define what the core Windows install would look like...

It sounds like most of the trouble has been with drivers rather than SQL2K5. Is this a fair generalization? Also, why are people installing the 32-bit version rather than the x64 version?...

This has been discussed in many threads here and on the MSDN forums. This UI was removed from SQL2K5. The functionality in SQL2K was passive; meaning, it allowed you to...

If you configure the instance to listen on a specific port and you code your connections to that port you won't need to run the SQL Browser service.

It is true that in SQL2K you had a little applet to track licenses. But the information entered there had absolutely no impact on the server. It didn't restrict connections...

You are most likely running in MDI mode. To switch back to the tab mode select Tools -> Options from the menu bar. On the options dialog select Environment ->...