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I read SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action and really like this book, I have reviewed SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action here: Review of SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action

I decided to ping Rod Colledge about doing an interview and he said yes. Some of the questions came from our f...

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You want to quickly find out what the recovery model is for your database but you don't want to start clicking and right-clicking in SSMS/Enterprise Manager to get that information. This is what you can do, you can use databasepropertyex to get that info. Replace 'msdb' with your database name

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The PSS SQL Server Engineers made a nice blogpost explaining How to Rebuild System Databases in SQL Server 2008

In SQL Server 2005, we introduced a different method than in previous versions to rebuild system databases (affectionately known as “rebuild master"). You were required to use the setup.exe program with command line switches.

This is no different in SQL Server 2008 but the command line switches have changed some and the process beh...

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