Very appropriate having recently been slated for using SSRS2005 and pushing it instead of Crystal Reports 8 because CR8 wouldn't do the job and give the report the user wanted...

"Right" or "wrong" side of the road is just a matter of what you grew up with and learned to drive on. Many of us Brits can cope with driving...

And if you think the roads of Cambridge are small try our deep West Country lanes - the vegetation touches my van on both sides at once as I drive home!!

In the spirit of SQL Server Central and the work-life balance ethos, how about something that also pleases the other half and family left behind eg a family ticket to...

Put him through the ITIL Foundation course quick!!

So that's why the weather's so awful here - Steve's brought it from America

Sorry Steve, but June's usually hot and dry because it's the...

Don't forget to check your INIT and NO INIT options are correct - I found a database with the log backing up beautifully every hour but each log backup was INIT and...

Looking after development, test and live environments I find I do restores two or three times a week without the need to choose databases - people are always wanting dev...

Enjoy Cambridge Steve - and don't forget Monday's a Bank Holiday in Britain - traffic jams after 4pm as everyone tries to get home on the M25

Probably a basic boring DBA too but I am also a web application developer and database designer as we're not big enough for a full time SQL DBA and this...

I have a script that iterates through all the database objects and runs a grant statement to set user permissions.

Just tweak it to suit - mine currently has all table...

There's lots of appropriate examples of vb.net with sql server at http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/

I learnt much of my data handling here! The datagrid series is especially recommended.

And P.S. you'd get slated...

I recently had a discussion with my son who was going through doubts about his degree course (Entertainment Technology) and felt it did not relate to the real world. I...

In my company each SQL instance has it's unique sa password which only I know (but is logged in a locked safe). However each designated DBA has their windows login...

As above plus re-consider why you need individual instances on PCs and how on earth you can keep them all patched up to the same standard. Centralised servers are so much easier to...