One of our clients has just developed a set of coding standards for their
.NET and SQL Server application development. For the SQL Server standards,
they say the following regarding error handling:
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I'm not sure if this is the right group, but I'm looking for information on
how to get our Contacts database (which is in SQLServer) into a Public
Address book on Microsoft Exchange.
I trawled the net and found the following article on SQLServerCentral...

   I'm rather new to mirroring, I had to setup the princible and the
mirror using certificates per the example in BOL. I am using
asychronous mode. Everything looks good till I launch the Database
Mirroring Monitor. In the left hand side it will say Time to Send Log

I have a SQL Server 2005 database that I am trying to rebuild the indexes.
I used the ALTER INDEX ON TABLE_NAME REBUILD on each table.
After completing this task I ran the DBCC SHOWCONTIG on each table.
I noticed the logical scan fragmentation is set between 25 - 80.

I am restoring SQL 2000 databases to a SQL 2005 SP2 where the
SQL server's collation is Latin1_General_CI_AS.
The SQL 2000 database backups that I am restoring have their collation
as SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS.

We have a few issues that we hope to get some information on as follows. We are not sql gurus and are learning on the fly (not the best, but we have to deal with this on a day by day basis while we interview SQL dbs).
A) We have a DB that looks like this, we inherited this from a ...

I have been asked to recover an SQL Server 2005 database which has had
data accidentally deleted. There are no backups :-(
I tried a demo of Apex SQL Log and it looks like it will recover the
data but it's quite expensive and I'm looking around to see if there's