Revenant (1/11/2012)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/11/2012)

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Ah, so you can assign our a portion of your copyright. The authors retain copyright for their work published here, but they grant us...

Is this being ran from a job? Sounds like the SQLAgent login doesn't have system db rights.

Text files would need the 'NULL' character (I forget what it is offhand, it's so rarely used) included in it to return a real NULL. Otherwise it's 0 length...

To toss in an "It Depends"...

Travis, I agree with you and others that you have to keep the time to solution in perspective. I also have that occassional stubborn...

There are a few sections in this bill that concern me, but I am not a lawyer, so I may not be seeing the whole picture that one of them...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/10/2012)

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I had to choose between the "This...

Perry Whittle (1/10/2012)

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Evil Kraig F (1/10/2012)

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Microsoft isn't perfect, they know it. Debugging 30 trillion lines of code across all their software is difficult. Their partners being even less...

http://www.senate.gov

Bill # is S.968

Put it into the box for 'THOMAS' and it will bring you to a non-pasteable link.

The final link is here for the pdf as of this date:

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s968rs/pdf/BILLS-112s968rs.pdf

Perry Whittle (1/10/2012)

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*yawn* now we've all finished slagging off MS, their products and their Gold partners can we move onto something else. A lot of the people in this thread...

My foot tastes GREAT! I think I'll swallow to the knee next time.

The problem in general from my point...

This one makes me laugh:

Q: Which of the following is an improved performance feature that uses bitmap filters for selecting minimal rows with queries?

A. Table partitions

B. Star Join

C. Where clause

D....

brendan woulfe (1/10/2012)

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GilaMonster (1/10/2012)

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JagWalia (1/10/2012)

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Q. Which of the following statements can be used to provide sorted result set based in the CustomerName column?

A. SELECT ROW_NUMBER() AS RN, CustomerName from Customers...

WayneS (1/10/2012)

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GilaMonster (1/9/2012)

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mtillman-921105 (1/9/2012)

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Then, thanks to one of Ms. Shaw’s recommended books, now I'm stuck in physics and cosmology. :blink: The book I'm reading now is The Fabric of the...

Brandie Tarvin (1/9/2012)

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Evil Kraig F (1/6/2012)

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Brandie Tarvin (1/6/2012)

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To be clear: I'm not concerned with fixing the timeout issue itself. I've got that covered. What I'm concerned with is how to...

What's the error?

Please how I can use...