I'll have to agree with the people who mentioned the 'story tellers' - a guy I work with tells you the same stories over and over again and just goes...

I had worked at a company where they developed the project plans with NO consideration for people's vacation time. Meaning, if you had 3 weeks worth of tasks to...

Yes, I am looking forward to retirement as well, although at 45 I still have a little way to go.  I agree with Steve, the older you get the more...

You may also want to check the audit level for the server.  If you don't really need to capture all logins (maybe just failed logins), that would reduce the size...

Oops, would help if I posted the link to the article.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/870675

Loner,

I had found this KB article about setting up SQL mail with an Internet mail server.  If you look at the 'More Information' paragraph, it states that you shouldn't use...

SQL Server 2005 doesn't require an Outlook client; you can just specify an SMTP server to use for DBA mail.

We have the same environment at my company, using Lotus Notes.  As previously mentioned, you can install the Outlook client on the server and configure a POP3 server, and then...

Back in the late 80's I was working in the systems support group of a company that sold turnkey computer systems.  One day I received a call from a fellow...

Don't know if you sat in on the webcast from Microsoft a few weeks ago, but they plan to release a end-user ad-hoc tool for Reporting Services to allow end...

If your network admins allow it, it probably would be best to use Veritas for both database and transaction log backups.  That way, when restoring from Veritas, the backup sets...

Have you tried using Performance Monitor from the OS?  The Physical Disk performance Object has several counters for Activity%, Reads/Writes per sec., etc.  If the server is dedicated to SQL, PM...

Check the newsletter from Wed., 3/17.  There is a tool described in the featured article section that a user posted which will export user permissions to an Excel spreadsheet.  I've...