To Matt's point, a previous employer of mine justified telecommuting based on building rent. They reduced their square footage by 33% and had the displaced workers telecomute. In...

My current company has been experimenting with virtual desktops which could help reduce costs even more -- it just assumes that people have a PC at home already 🙂 ...

I haven't tried it yet, but could you also set up an Alert in SQL Server 2005 where the Object is SQL Server:Locks and the Counter is Number of Deadlocks/sec...

To me its all about knowing your data. This is a great method to use some of the time, but it will cost you in performance in some cases....

I came across this article while looking for a size limit on the sp_OAMethod output vaiable.  It turns out that the 255 character limit that Ryan had in this article...

I answered this one correctly as credited, but as soon as I read it I knew the wording would cause problems.  In reality, I would have checked Errorlog before the...

Well I got this wrong, choosing option B with about 41% of other people.  I think we needed an option E - A real DBA would not use SMO for this...

At all of the companies I have been at we tend to use RAID 5.  Many times it has to do strictly with cost, and you get more usable disk for...

I would say the answers are flawed.  The question as phrased should have had 2 possible answers A) Yes, or B) No.  For people who have been keeping up to...

A good overview of views.  One area I would caution on the use of horizonal partitioning - if your views encompasses a lot of tables (60+ in our case) and...

I've never used the option specified in the MSFT link below, but it seems to say that you can execute packages in 32-bit mode from a 64-bit install.  Specifically it...

I would have to agree that D is more correct than B.  In addition to the points above, the referenced article even states that using a SELECT INTO will cause...

I liked how it gave me the following response to my "incorrect" answer:

Correct Answer: 2382

You Answered: 2382