I wish I had become a professional soccer (football for non-US residents) player. I'm not sure I would have made it, but I definitely would have tried.

I sometimes think trying to find out "who" is to blame just adds fuel to the fire. The goal should be to find out "what" is to blame and then...

Good job. Very informative and usefule.

Also, it's usually a good idea to run DBCC CHECKDB after restoring databases from backups.

Since the user owns a schema in the database, you need to find which schema it owns and change ownership, then the user can be dropped.

I'll be doing a LITTLE work around the house, taking a few naps, and watching my daughter march in the Memorial Day parade.

Great series! I use Profiler often and it's nice to know I'm doing some things right, and I even learned a few new things.

Wow...maybe the lack of responses supports your idea of needing a clear methodology for performance tuning. I'm still stuck in 2000 so my resources are limited. Profiler is usually my...

I have a degree in Physics, but haven't used it since graduating. I wanted to go into research but was horribly disillusioned by my advisor. My first job was in...

I'm not sure how much of a response you'll get on this since DR plans many times contain proprietary information and vary widely based on the environment. You're best bet...

Do a search on exporting to Excel file using OPENROWSET and you should find a solution to your question.

Loud talkers! There is one person in the department whose voice is about 10 dB too loud and it makes it difficult to concentrate sometimes (I sit next to his...

I would also say that Google has helped me become more productive. I constantly use it to find answers to questions/problems quickly with a very high success rate.

I don't...

I think a 24 - 36 month cycle is good, although my company tends to be late adopters. We're a pretty small shop and all of our servers are still...

I test my backups on a daily basis by automatically restoring on a test server. Early on in my career I didn't do this, but read enough articles and forums...