OK, so on my CV/resume, would I put T-SQL and SQL in the section for knowledge of programming languages or just T-SQL?

I guess my initial idea was that T-SQL was...

That sounds like a pretty accurate analysis.

I also guess that in this time of austerity, IT departments will have to provide very good reasons to upgrade.

Some of the databases I...

Thanks. I think you read my mind!

My experience of uninstalling SQL Server 2005 and then installing 2008 R2 wasn't wonderful. This meant I had to reinstall my home operating system,...

Thanks very much for your advice which is very helpful and I will use as a reference. 🙂

Many thanks for your feedback.

I am guessing they will need to contact Microsoft directly.

I think this will just be on 2-3 machines and not on the server.

The BE is...

Many thanks to Steve and Rod for these comprehensive responses. I'm pretty gald to be making efforts to move away from MS Access as I am beginning to learn so...

I just have a question relating to ADO.NET and SQLCLR (which is a newbie question!).

Which should I use in SQL Server 2008 R2, or are they both different/both need to...

I think I managed to resolve this myself! Here is the extract from what I put on MS:

All is not lost. These problems were resolved by:

(1a) In VS2008 SSRS,...

From my understanding T-SQL contains a lot of programming within it. Does that mean that C# or VB.NET are principally used for linking SQL Server to .NET applications?

I have a...

Thanks for the advice - it is probably more likely that I will go for VB.NET in relation to SQL Server and start, at some point, C++, just as a...

This is a little digressing from the post but as T-SQL is the prerequisite and I have had some exposure to VBA, VB.NET would seem to be a good step.

However,...

Many thanks for your response and advice about C# and VB.NET in SQL Server.

I will probably concentrate on T-SQL primarily, as well as looking at getting an understanding of SSRS....

Is it easy to upgrade from the evaluation edition of 2008 R2 to the developer edition? i.e. is this a seamless transition?

My experience with having 2005 and 2008 on the...

Many thanks for the link.

I've certainly got a lot to look at here and learning about SQL Server is looking to be the right transition for me after having spent...

Thanks. I will think about Technet, however I have had quite a lot of spending recently getting a new laptop (i5, 4GB RAM - which is about my limit for...