Sorry, the backups are only forward compatile from 7 to 2000, not backward.

Please post the query that you can. It will give us a better idea of what you are doin and why there may be such a delay. And keep in...

Why not convert deisel engines over in power plants to run off vegetable oil. They can do it with cars and again another waste not want not situation. The government...

Using FileSystemObjects, sorry no sample on hand, but look for that in the seach of the forum should turn up a few. Use FileSystemObjects to check the file size and...

Do you get nothing in the output or are you assuming it is done and it just hasn't finished maybe?

Or maybe you have yours setup to hide the server in...

It is a known issue with regards to the batch seperator GO in a multiline comment. I don't have the KB article handy but if you look at MS code...

It is all about the distance it takes to reach the data. Basically the L1-3 are various distances from the processor at which data can be stored during processing as...

In QA use

SET SHOWPLAN_TEXT ON

To generate a text version of the execution plan, which you can then save to a file to compare afterwards.

Could try a cursor but I don't recall if there are any limitations on UDFs with cursors.

Look here for a post I did with cursor for same sort of thing

What are you expecting the outcome to be. I am not sure exactly what ou are looking for but if you are talking about building a querystring with values set...

Thanks Frank,

I did the google thing yesturday (forget my exact clause but it was similar) and I was just returning garbage as far as usefull sites.

Read "Data Types" in SQL BOL

But length means the number of bytes a datatype will take to store in the database with the excetpion of unicode types (NCHAR, NVARCHAR, etc)...

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Actually I pretty sure that the evaluation stops on the first true condition of an OR. But I am not sure of how to test or right off who in...

As I said. I haven't tested but will try when I get a PC at home again (was robbed last week so I am without)