Do you have a BackupExec SQL Agent CAL?<BR><BR>You can't (well, shouldn't) back up the MDF/LDF files directly. If you have the CAL, BackupExec will use VSS to do a snapshot and backup a consistent ...

Hi Everyone,<BR><BR>I have (I hope) a simple question: why use EXEC when calling a stored procedure (Microsoft SQL 2005) from a SQL query window?<BR><BR>I can do this:<BR> sp_LinkedServers<BR><BR>or I ...

For veteran database watchers, it may feel oddly early to hear talk of the next version of Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server database. It seems like it was just yesterday that Microsoft was issuing one of ...

DALLAS — Paul Flessner, senior vice president of the Windows Server System at Microsoft Corp., announced yesterday during his keynote address at TechEd 2003 here that the ship date for the SQL Server ...