"Would you pay 10x something is worth just to keep the money spent in your own community?"

So you're telling me that if I hire ten US developers for a project,...

And SELECT ISDATE(6372) returns 1917-06-13 00:00:00.

Phillip:  I feel your pain.  I, too, am the 2nd banana in a two DBA shop.  And I really believe that you have a people problem if they won't let...

If your developers, designers, and requirements weenies are allowed to "toss any old thing" into your database, you don't have technical problems, you have people problems.  Why do they care in which...

Jeepers, Grandpa, how many Atari's could you haul with a horse and buggy?

Check BOL for SERVERPROPERTY. It gives you some other useful properties as well.

This gives you a list of all the views that have a column 'custname".

select a.table_name, a.column_name from information_schema.columns AS a

join information_schema.views AS v ON a.table_name = v.table_name

...

Why not spruce it up a bit and post it in the scripts section?

The plot thickens! Five of my test messages from 9-14 and 9-16 showed up early 9-18 with a "Undeliverable... Could not deliver the message in the time limit specified"...

Thanks, Rudy. We have set relaying on for authenticated servers, so I don't think that's it. Plus, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It returns a zero...

Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?

No, I've heard about third world countries.  A big chunk of the USA has turned into one just this week.    But clue me in to the...

The paperless office will be here around the same time that the paperless bathroom arrives.

From where are you calling the stored proc?  If you are calling it from a client app written in VB, for example, can you create a disconnected recordset and then...

And what does the "genderizing" tool return as the gender for Jagannath?  Anyone?  Anyone?