Remi,  I still work with my partner and his comment is "You should have seen Jim's face, I just felt sorry for him".

Yep, the rebuilt server was shutdown.  This incident was a few years ago when servers were the size of small refrigerators.  My partner and...

To help out Steve, my worst moment had nothing to do with Sqlserver or DBA duties,  but it was a communication issue.  We had just spent 23 hours straight rebuilding...

Code snippet from a Visual basic script that I use to send email without outlook.  Just set msgHTML to any HTml or text.

Sub MailMsg ()

'

'Objective: Build a report and...

Due to the size of your Db backup you may have to compress your backup file.  Expect about a 66% compression ratio, I have a 6gb backup file that compresses to  2GB.  We use backup/compress/ftp/uncompress/restore...