Or meet him in person at SQL Pass if you get a chance to go when he is there

*#$%§!!

While I tend to agree with you in general, I don't consider this a question of laziness, but rather knowledge and competence. Given the possibility to write code in T-SQL...

With presumably everything important already said, let me just add: I've been away from here for the last couple of month, but I've missed it a lot meanwhile and it's...

Just to be complete, RAID 5 is totally different for an OLAP environment, since I suspect it there giving better performance than any other RAID level.

Actually I would consider this structured error handling an improvement.

The crux with it, as you have noticed, is that it is mostly poorly used. Btw, many people really shouldn't use...

The issues may all be moot anyway with microsoft continuing to muddy the relational environment with its "enhancements" that will only further enable procedural thinking (and slow down applications---job security...

Got this book for a week or two and I really think this comes in overall quality as close to Inside SQL Server as it can get. Yes, I know, both...

I am an EBay fanatic. Haven't gotten finished yet and I realy want to get to "An Introduction to Database Systems" by CJ Date I picked up not long ago.

For...

I didn't mean to force people to put up their photo or otherwise they will be banned from posting here. I thought more...

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=8&messageid=149804

Hm, I thought the book is out of print, isn't it?

See, if this helps:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/sql/2000/all/reskit/en-us/part3/c1161.mspx

If you need this disk space urgently, you can use a rather brute-force method.

1. detach db

2. rename or delete log file

3. attach db

SQL Server gives a warning but generates a...

Presumably sp_attach_single_file_db.

I use ADO. Just import the ADO.dll like this

...

#import "c:\programme\gemeinsame dateien\system\ado\msado15.dll"

rename("EOF", "eof")

...

and there you go and can use the ADO object model. There a lot of examples out there on...