I spent yesterday reading around MCDBA vs MCITP and had decided to do the MCDBA, purely on the basis that I'm working with SS2k on Server2003. My priority really...

Thanks Jo.

That's very interesting! Aside from general performance, I have one specific problem; the first time users log on, it takes upwards of 30 seconds to return an...

I shrink the database once a week, and truncate the log.

I haven't done anything with the tempdb. At this stage (10:00 am) the mdf is only 8mb and the...