DO they just make up their OWN answers to these questions?

I see this is an OLD question - but our soluton to this very problem was to use Active Directory group(s) to limit access to ...

Redundant it is. I like to have as many options as possible.

SO i guess there is no way to shut the dataabse down without the system thinking it...

We do a full database backup then we do the cold backup of the database files - we have had occasion where we want to move those to anther server...

select * from data where Desc like '%CA%'