We have been running SQL Server 2000\2005 in Test and Production environments (around 40 VM's) - on VMWare ESX 3 then VMWare ESX 3.5. It works very fine, the only...

Stored Procedures & Extended Stored Procedures

One quite importnat thing a lot of organisations do is also remove\(drop) the XP_cmdshell. The reasons for this is also well enough documented

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Some sources go on...