Visual Studio should always be installed BEFORE SQL Server or you'll mess up the install. We had major problems at my workplace when we did it reversed.

On the other...

That's okay. We forgive you.

Only as long as your misconduct was illegal and entertaining that is. @=)

Notifications come from a different email address than the newsletters. I've never had a problem receiving them or having them caught by the spam filter.

BTW, you might want to mention to the guy who told you SQL was installed wrong that you aren't installing SQL Server Developer. You're installing Visual Studio and it's...

Ahha! That's your problem. @=)

The install of Visual Studio 2005 comes with SQL Server Express which doesn't have a lot of the tools you'd expect. For instance,...

I didn't get this morning's newsletter either. And it's not listed newsletter link to the left, which makes me believe it's late today.

Or something else happened.

The last time I heard about a problem like this was when someone had SQL Express installed on their system prior to trying to install a different version of SQL...

if not then what are the advantages of adding the users in the schema. what if the user Joe is Db owner? it does not make sense to give him...

Ah, yes. The old "double-talk" standard.

Could be the contracting rep shoved his way into the company and insisted they needed this position. The company almost bought it, maybe...

From what I understand, SQL 2008 isn't changed a whole lot from 2005. And since it's not coming out for several months, and the exams will probably be out...

I agree that honesty is the best policy, but so is tact.

If you left the previous job because of personality conflict or because you hated the work environment...

Gotta love a job with a boss that says "Go home at the end of the day and don't take your work with you!". @=)

I got one of those...

Open up BOL and look at "dbo". This will explain the dbo user account to you.

Maybe the problem is, when you removed SysAdmin access from the "admin"...

Sorry this took so long, but I didn't have a paypal account and wanted to look at alternatives before I signed up for one.

Pricing is as follows:

Pirates of the Blue...

Wow. Profiler recorded nothing.

I ran both queries twice on a 69 column wide, 7,538,289 row long table. Select Distinct * and Select Distinct (columnlist). I...