I was lucky that my parents never told me that I shouldn't be good in math or science as I was growing up.  I don't remember hearing of something so...

Good idea.

Cool.  Looks like there are a lot of ways to solve this puzzle. 

This product sounds pretty cool.  The one thing I caution is that many Access applications are designed poorly and porting them to SQL Server as is will not solve any problems. ...

Yes, this is an old article.  I'm not planning on doing any more Access / SQL Server apps.  Any new applications that I work on, and that is very few, will...

Glad I could help.  I am thinking about writing a new article on SQL Server 2005 schemas.

Since I usually read the newsletter on my Motorolla Q while riding the bus to work, I didn't notice the format change.  The newletter just shows as text on my...

Comparing to NULL is problematic even when you compare NULL to NULL.

I agree, more information would help us help you.  But, I'm willing to take a stab at it.  In the description you said status codes 405 and 405, but you...

Can you check for something that will always have some data, maybe sAccountNumber.  I think that not allowing NULL isn't your problem. 

For example, if I have 30 people with...

When reading the article it reminded me of the movie "Minority Report" where data mining goes so far as to predict who will commit murders. The police can arrest the murderer...

On Friday I spent the day going to sessions and saying goodbye.  I attended one on SMO by Peter Ward.  He has inspired me to convert some of my maintenance scripts written in T-SQL to...

Sorry for not posting yesterday.

Wednesday was a really tough day for me. I gave a presentation on beginning T-SQL but had major technical problems getting the presentation started because my...

Yesterday was another great day.  This year PASS held a volunteer and chapter leader training day.  We learned a lot about the history of PASS, the board of directors and...

Yesterday was great.

I met up with Tom and friends at breakfast.  I attended the performance monitoring pre-conference seminar with Andrew Kelly.  Anytime you get a chance to hear someone...