Pick up this set of books, MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit - ISBN 13 978-0-7356-2377-4, three book set plus tests, etc. I've been chewing through it over the last...

It's not unusual in todays world to see newer hardware installations try to take advantage of virtualization in one form or another (or converting from multiple physical machines to multiple...

Karl has got it right - the single biggest issue I've seen with blade servers/centers is I/O. Older blade centers/chassis in particular usually came with way too few I/O...

Jeff -

By "block level backup" do you mean a specific backup package or are you utilizing the snapshot capabilities of a SAN/NAS?

There are SAN/NAS solutions that can provide...

My vote is for the unexpected consequences of having column order changes break client applications.

Given that you can very simply insert a column at any position in a table in...

egejo15 -

You've obviously got database access, and based on the columns in your posted data I'd bet that the user name table in question is not a sql server system...

Funny that this thread would pop up today. Just saw a presentation by the developer of sqltac at the Denver SQL Server Users Group this evening and one of...

Just one additional comment, if you're responsible for that database server be sure to backup everything including system and user db's religiously. If my assumptions on the raid 10...

Hmm...

Any idea of how your 4 drives are configured under the hood? Based on the numbers I suspect that you've got a raid 10 (or 1+0 depending on...

One caveat in regards to application roles, application roles are enforced entirely by the application, not by Active Directory or SQL Server which makes the application itself just one more...

With a large database (>100GB) you probably need more than one filegroup but need to think through what you're trying to accomplish when creating your filegroups. There are several...

Watch yourself with Event Sinks as they've shown a habit of changing between versions of Exchange and many of the "old" events that you used to be able to "attach"...

Don't build this one yourself that's for sure, email returns can take a variety of formats, etc. - there are multiple tools out there from free to commercial that can...

Can't help but ask why you want to track the changes they are making...? Do you think you're going to have the time to find/fix errors in their script...

Have a talk with your network/dns admins. You've got a reverse DNS issue, the receiving email server is doing a reverse DNS lookup on the sending servers IP address...