But surely the whole point of being certified is being able to deal with real world situations that CANNOT be predicted?

If you rely upon learning questions by rote, rather than...

Interesting response to a thought provoking article, Mark. The only thing I'd question about using it in such a scenario is what would happen if the app was left open,...

Definitely worth standardising on equipment, I'd recommend it even for home or small business use, especially when you're just starting out. Murphy's law says if something goes down it will...

Most excellent article Brian, one of those reference ones that will go into the very useful solutions folder. Thank you.

Jon Reade

Bill Gates has fronted Microsoft for 25 years.

Microsoft is on-and-off the most highly valued company in the world.

Bill Gates knows business.

Bill Gates is a techie.

Bill Gates listens to his techies.

Maybe...

Good argument Andy, but I'd go further and say that really (and we probably all don't do this) what we need to do is NOT connect to production databases using...

Slap it out under management's noses, take the credit and move on up the ladder, leaving some other poor sap to pick up the support pieces. Love it Chris, I'm...

Good article James, well investigated.

Looks like Microsoft got it right on the security front with this one too, as the s/p needs to be owned by a system user in...

Good article James, well investigated.

Looks like Microsoft got it right on the security front with this one too, as the s/p needs to be owned by a system user in...

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..and of course simply bunging in another processor adds to your licensing costs, never mind the cost of RAM, disk and tapes.

Yes,...

One of my clients had a customer complaints system that was killed every Monday morning because (badly written) management reports were being run against the database server whilst it was...

I think Steve's got to the centre of the problem, in that the two skills require different ways of thinking, just like speaking French or German. And just because you're...

Are you running on 7.0 or 2000?

If 7.0, what service pack?

And if it's SP2 or less, are you running on a multi-processor box?

We've seen some really grim problems with 7.0...

Completely agree Lee - it's usually curtains for any project when a developer turns DBA and tries to design databases, let alone administer them. I'm working on a project where...

Excellent article Steve, we're seeing a way worse situation in Britain, especially in the development sector where there's 50% of programmers out of work.

This is mainly as a result of...