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Try Control Panel under Regional and Language Options (I'm looking at this in XP,...

Hm. That is odd. What OS collation are you using?

How is the data being inserted? Via a client front end, SSIS, Bulk Insert, etc.? Has that changed recently?

Is the data...

Glad you got it working.

I know this is a stupid question, but did you uninstall it first? Did you try the repair utility?

As far as Messages go, message is a keyword for Service Broker,...

Did you use a #Temp table or a regular table that you deleted afterword?

How do they prove they posted the link if it gets deleted?

I think BAPIs is the way the webservices I know of do it. There's no direct table involvement.

I don't think I've tried the SSIS adapter, though.

Management Studio is just a client tool. If it's corrupt, try reinstalling it.

And don't forget the possibility out-of-date statistics. While most people only think about them when it comes time to read, my opinion is that bad stats can also affect inserts...

As Ninja said, it's a guesstimate, not a science. But you can average out your monthly growth as a baseline, then talk to the business about upcoming trends. If the...

Latin collation will not allow Polish characters. It sounds like you need to change the database collation. Look up "collations [SQL Server], about collations" in Books Online. (without the quotes)....

Aaaaahhhhh. Good catch.

For some reason, I had it in my head that all I had to do was leave it at "Report and Continue" and that would cause it...

I'm only assuming. I could never get the cube to process so long as "Key Not Found" was left as "Report and Continue." But as soon as I changed that...

The name is deceptive (database timestamp)...