Thanks Mike.

It seem the Passed stamp in Prometric > Candidate History is the confirmation of...

Absolutely Gail. I dont think I'll underestimate the lab exam.

I took the exam on 10-Jul-12. No wonder I could see the Passed on my Candidate History in the first week already. I discard the result thinking it was an...

Thanks for advice Gail.

There are so many questions in my head now whether to take the exam remotely or at Prometric office. If anyone has taken the lab exam...

Thanks for confirmation Gail. I guess this is the best news for me today! Before I was just patiently wait for the result in the next 30-business days.

I'm still haunted...

Hi Gail,

I saw the Passed after logging on to Prometric web site and looking at my Candidate History (I think its the same section where you print your exam receipt)....

I would like to share my MCM exam experience which hasn’t been very smooth 🙁

I wanted to take the exam in Japan since I’m going there for holiday, but Japan...

errr.. the explaination says you cant update system tables on sql 2005 onwards. is this description really true?

I'm not saying its a good practice and Microsoft definitely doesnt support the...

Jeff Moden (4/17/2012)

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Simon-413722 (4/16/2012)

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I hardly use dbcc shrinkdatabase for shrinking dev database and...

Thanks. I was just curious because few sources include our SAN vendor advices us against defragging SAN.

Do you defrag SAN? We don't. Any special utility that you're using?

Thanks, gotcha.

I hardly use dbcc shrinkdatabase for shrinking dev database and only ever use shrinkfile. So, I didnt thought the article was specifically referring to shrinkdatabase.

Last year Nov, our company had a review with Microsoft on SQLRAP results. They highlighted SQL Service account granted "perform volume maintenance tasks" as a risk. I just close my...

Gail is right, SQL 2005 licensing is imposed on the physical CPU/sockets. So, if you have 4CPU x 6 cores (=24 cores), then its not a violation of SQL 2005...

WayneS (2/23/2012)

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Another question related to this. Tech Support people are saying that we didn't start having this problem until the server was upgraded. It went from a 4-core 8GB ram...