Thank you Eric! My finance mentioned *.gov sties and I sort of put him off and he is now busting a gut on your post. Damn if I let him...

That is great Jeff, and yes it did get my creative juices flowing. I am probably going to still need data as I want to do some reporting, BI and...

The only thing that I can think of is the wireless connection was not as secure as my own. But hey, I am happy so the world is alright in...

HI everyone-

Well I cannot answer what I did, but I was able to download the 32bit CPT3. The only change was going to another network that was less secure (ahem...

Thank you Ken, Unfortunately I am not connected to a company network.

I will try it again, perhaps it was the network speed from my home.

If anyone else was successful,...

I am wondering if the OP had a solution? I am running Vista and have tried and tried. I need the 32bit.

Is it best to try and run the iso?...

Thank you GilaMonster, you have saved my sanity 😛

Thanks, I had never heard of it, so it was new to me. I did a search on new...

Thank you Welsh

I have taken what has been stated on new items in SQL:

RANKING functions

such as ROW_NUMBER()

new data types

new CLR types

new options with indexing

TRY/CATCH statements in T-SQL(YAY!!~)

APPLY operator

others...

I have downloaded all of the ebooks, including best of SSC, if that is where I should begin let me know. I just want to be sure I am writing...

Can someone point me to a good article on derived tables vs temp tables in regards to performance?

I didn't want to start a whole new thread as this pertains...

suddenly christi finds a huge gust of wind flying over her head.

😛

ACK!!! I step away from the computer for a bit and come back to SSC and I see all the things that I wanted to forget and now remember...

Saga... (8/25/2011)

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Christi Wilson (8/18/2011)

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Hi everyone! I hope some of you can help me out.

I was a database programmer for 6 years and due to illness I had to take about...

took a much needed break lol Thanks Welsh