I disagree with Roger's comment about the complexity of SQL, and I'm not sure how the argument that dealing with disparate needs is supposed to be a cop out. At...

For me I don't think feeling insecure in your abilities or knowledge is ever a good thing, and in this context I'd suggest it's something that doesn't so much diminish...

Unless it's absolutely necessary for some reason, which from your description it isn't, it's a really bad idea to make your SQL Server accessible by the world in general. Your...

I disagree with Tony on his assumption that backups should always be there as standard, it entirely depends on what Jeff was paying for. If you want to pay as...

Agreed. With some managers it doesn't matter what you say, how well thought out your argument is to...

Is there any reason why you have a netapp backup running also. Why not just do the sql full and tran log backups and then move the backups from disk...

Thanks for the replies guys. Should have known it was too good to be true. Funnily enough that problem occurred to me just before I saw you'd replied... not so...

We have a similar setup to Andrew using a combination of Backup Exec and the Maintenance plans, and it was only the other day when thinking through our setup I...

Well that's a fair suggestion though ideally I'm looking for something which is as seamless as possible from the viewpoint of the developers (Not asking for much am I! :-).

If...

As someone for whom joins have always been a weak area I was very interested in this article, but I have to admit that the quality of the grammar did...

If you're just trying to limit the number of databases that a user sees to those that they actually have access to, you might want to consider installing this updated...