Thanks, GSquared for the advice. I was thinking a SAN was a bit of an overkill in this environment too.

I have another question about this post. I need to have the file save as a UTF08 character format. Is this possible?

That was it! :w00t: Thank you SO MUCH!!!!!

I'm getting the trailing spaces in the columns on every row. When doing the query from within Management Studio & doing a File > Save Results As, the data...

Great - thank you!

I read on some of the forum posts that we need to take the databases offline to defrag the hard drive. Is that true? Or can we just...

Thank you!

Thanks! If one doesn't plan on going into management any time soon, what is good to "beef up" a resume? I already have a bachelor's degree & 1...

No, I haven't figured out the error message.  I just scripted the index rebuild job instead.

Thank you for all your responses!

What kind of backup plan would you recommend for a clustered environment?  We currently have full backups happen nightly to tape (plus another local disk...

Would anyone recommend a good book to learn everything about replication (besides BOL)? Thanks.

Thank you very much for all your replies! All of this is very helpful...especially thinking of the new network manager as a farm animal.