Great video Brad! Thanks for posting it. I have sent it to my development team urging them to watch it... I don't think people realize how much information they...

I agree that you need to do a little studying on the new administration model of 2K5, and will even go as far to admit that Management Studio is on...

Good point about the 7 year issue.  

As far as the "upgrade every other version" cycle, I don't think you can be oin either one of those two options due to the major time (and technology) gaps...

At first thought, I saw the logic in what Steve outlined with the incremental versions.  However, server and development software Microsoft has been releasing of late is of much higher...

Great Article!

One thing I would add:

You just got a new job as a DBA and inherit a poorly designed/maintained production database (ie NO referential integrity, no use of transactions, anonymous...