Queensland University of Technology had an interesting campaign to help increase female enrolment in Information Technology entitled "Go for I.T grrl!" which, while the intentions were good, came across as...

from planning our company migration from 2k5->2k8, it looks like it will at least be easier than our 2k->2k5 migration 🙂

actually you can just access the system tables directly, ie dbo.sysobjects

this was caught me at work the other day. you can still actually directly access the system table by toggling some sp_configure property i believe, could be wrong though,...

Check in the properties of the DB through M.S.

Is 'tempdb' stored on the external drive as well?