would there not be an issue in the future if the user account was disabled?

that is my concern.

there's always a pluralsight subscription, if they'd be on board for paying for it. not sure it covers all you're wanting, but it does have a BI section, plus other...

good lord. 3 hours on details of DBCC commands? sheesh. seems like overkill, to say the very least.

GSquared (3/22/2010)

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For example, I'd never bother to ask a DBA applicant what the...

MeasureUp used to advertise itself as the 'official' provider of MS practice exams - don't know if that still applies or not. But it seems like it would be a...

i ran across odesk a while back, not a ton of SQL DBA jobs though. might be worth at least a glance, though the hourly rates are apparently diving pretty...

sybex books, definately. i like them much better than those awful to read MS blue ones.

Plus, for anyone that happens to already be a MCITP: Database Developer on SQL 2005, you're already one test towards that goal (70-431). SQL 2008, well, not so much.

I took it about a week ago. It is all case-based, no sims, standard multiple-choice style of the questions.

sounds like what you're looking for is the MCITP: Database Administrator on SQL Server 2005.

3 exams: 70-431, 70-444, and 70-443.

i will leave the legal/ethical aspects of the situation to the other posters, as they have some good commentary, and focus on a different side of things. one of the...

aside from frowning at my coworkers, i did the following to get the servers behaving again:

Running SELECT @@SERVERNAME verified the problem - it returned the old servername.

The solution to...

worked like a charm. thanks!