I don't know the world Oracle exists in, but here in SQL Server land (and the rest of those RDBMS out there) NULL is not the same as an empty...

Yes, that's what I meant earlier. Here's a sample usage of dbcc page.

use pubs

go

dbcc traceon(3604)

go

dbcc page(5,1,88,1)

This is the result

DBCC-Ausführung abgeschlossen. Falls DBCC Fehlermeldungen ausgegeben hat, wenden Sie sich an den...

Well, rather than complaining on and on, we should wait for Brian Knight's post. Maybe there is a rationale

As has been said before, copying a db while it is online is a bad, bad idea.

I once tried this, burned a CD to take it home and spent...

Not sure if I understand you.

Do you mean the 16 byte root pointer in the data row or the actual size of the b-tree structure that stores the BLOB?

Maybe this article will help you

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/RDyess/ospr.asp

Because of the formatting it is somehow difficult to read.

We should have more of such questions...

I can't remember any other thread having such a huge number of first-time posters.

As for pseudo topic-related:

But may I suggest a balance: statistics are not completely manipulatable (is this in the dictionary?). But those who are proficient with them and understand how they were derived can...

Can't you buy special support when having Windows 2000 Datacenter Edition that guarantees 99,9%+ availability. Think I read this somewhere.

I'm sure you'll find what you need when searching through the script section.

Does this help?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/scriptdetails.asp?scriptid=246

You know when you are trying to teach your kids to behave properly part of it is getting them to speak properly (and the rest is teaching them when to...

Hey, I'm at the office.

Sure I'm confused right now. I always argued the equities have a higher implicite risk than bonds or the german type called registered bonds. So...

Bear with a slow german, Dave. What does this mean?

I like statistics

Especially those I have manipulated myself

It depends on whom you present your statistics to....