Was there a newsletter on 8/1?

If there wasn't, I haven't had any problems regarding newsletter delivery.  If there was, this is the only instance I've encountered.  I get my delivery...

Loner,

In the situation where your boss says something is easy and you don't think it is, try sitting down with him and asking about it.  Tell him something like, "Okay,...

Juan,

I wouldn't wait for the 2008 certs to come out.  It'll at least be a year (probably two) before any decent study materials come out.  Besides, you get your MCITP...

You should not try and stop / restart the services until you've tried to kill that particular SPID.

"Kill <spid>" is the command.  It may take a while, so be patient. ...

If you look up "Convert Function" in Books Online, it will give you all the codes for converting a datetime to your proper format.  For the Italian format version, the...

So essentially anything saved to the system that uses a table variable could potentially be listed in sys.indexes as a type "Heap" then.

Hmmm.  I suppose that makes sense.  Would be...

I have no idea.  And since SPIDs and object_IDs can vary per database, I'm not sure you'll be able to get an answer for that.

But running profiler during the deadlock...

I think the author's point was that maintenance used to be simple.  Then Microsoft re-wrote the whole thing and made it ten times more difficult in an effort to improve...

Personally, I think the cost of being civil to your contractor / perspective employer after an interview is far, far less than the cost of not getting the job /...

Bob - ROTFLOL.

Steve, here's a non-economic misson critical server for you.  The little boxes they use in every tower at every national airport.  It's not about money when you lose...

Actually, I just discovered that if you run the DBCC command with NoReseed after the original ReSeed command (if there are values in the table), it will reset on the...

Opps.  I guess I didn't make myself clear.

What I meant to say was that each source can have it's different column count (use the max # of columns you think...

Dinesh,

What you need is a separate data source for each individual sheet.  If the max # is fixed, then you're fine.  Just create a source for each possible one and...

Actually, in my original post, I did provide a better way to do it.  And if a variable doesn't work for you, there's always a WHILE LOOP or a UNION...

RSI?  Haven't heard that acronym before. 

I hate to say it, but I can see why companies are so resistant to buying ergonomic furniture.  First, it's more expensive than the...