My apologies Steve....I went back quite a ways in the articles and found "The Last Day to Save". And that discussed PASS and the SQLServerCentral party.

-SQLBill

I'll have to relook Steve.  The only thing I've seen was an announcement that it was happening, with the dates and a request that we use SSC. However, I had...

I get there Monday afternoon and leave on Saturday. I know SSC throws a party, but I haven't seen them mention anything about PASS-2005 yet.

-SQLBill

The 760 of 8.00.760 identifies the 'build'. 760 is SQL Server service pack 3 (SP3).

You can find this somewhere on Microsoft's website, but you can also find it at:

http://www.sqlsecurity.com/DesktopDefault.aspx

Then...

After I shrink a database or file, I always run DBCC UPDATEUSAGE. EM tends to give wrong information until that is run.

-SQLBill

another method is to detach the database, copy the .mdf and .ldf files to their new location and then attach them.

-SQLBill

<quote - Joshua Perry>"There is only one tempdb per server..."<end quote>

That's interesting, my SERVER has three tempdb's. The fact is that you have one tempdb per INSTANCE and you can...

What do you mean it 'corrupts the SQLpath registry key"?

-SQLBill

Steve,

<quote> The plagiarism was stunning to me. I couldn't for the life of my figure out why someone would do it and why bother. <end quote>

Why do people cheat at...

My company approved it and I'm going. I'll be arriving on the 26th and leaving on Oct 1st.

-SQLBill

It's hard to follow what you want, some examples would help us to understand the problem better. But let me take a guess....

You have a table, let's call it WORK...it...

Congratulations for taking a stance Steve!

For those who found other examples of this individual committing plagerism....did you forward it to Ken? or to whomever was the original author?

We are seeing...

I hope to be there.....submitted my request to the company and I'm awaiting their decision.

-SQLBill

The error message said to check the SQL Server Error Log for more information, did you do that?

Also check the Windows Event Viewer logs as there may be more information...

Most important thing to do before installing SP4....

Was your SQL Server instance/db created by a third-party application? If so, check with them first before installing SP4.  SP4 changes the way...