The last couple of places I have worked we counted multiple uptime counters.  One that is as seen from the client side, and one that is internal.  I.e. if a...

Absolutely David.  I have 2 years of Access programming/managing, it has not once appeared on my resume or "skills list".

I've had fairly good luck with recruiters, but then I also...

Loner,

from reading this and other posts you have made in the past, it seems to me like most of your problems are with office politics.  Personally I despise it, but...

Groudn effect is not a physical barrier, it only really applies at a shallow descent.  And not finding large pieces not all that strange with an airplane hitting a hard...

I have laready done my moment of silence this morning.

Airplanes can fly all the way down to the ground, if not they could not land...  Ground effect (float) occurs at...

Could possibly also use xp_delete_file

Don't you normally want to insert the values into the audit table?  Updating a value in an audit table kind of defeats the purpose of an audit.  At least in...

The DBA, or whoever in charge, should have noticed.  But yes, if I leave there really would be anyone that could check that everything was running 100%.  I do have...

oops Noeld is correct.  One I said returns the user name in the database, suser_sname returns the login name.

I think it was.  Should it not be?

Without looking too closely at your query, I would say you most likely need to go to sys.server_principals to look that up.  Or you could use the user_name(ID) function.

varchar(max) is not limited to 8000 char.

There is no way to backup a single table in SQL (natively), you would have to bulk copy out the individual tables.  Look up the "Importing and Exporting Bulk Data"...

One place I worked had sp_who2 as one of their tabs on the application so the users could see who was blocking them.... very badly written application with all the...

And sometimes recruiters rewrite a resume to match better with what the requirements is for the job.  Which is why I demand when I go trough a recruiter to see...