"Trust your people to do their jobs, and deal with things later if they don't, but trust them up front. "

Sounds simple, and it should be - but I've seen...

"There are, of course, the classic general danger signs such as a fish-tank in the foyer, and a flagpole outside."

Flag poles are quite common in our area of the country...

Still using SQL2000, and planning to migrate to Denali/2012 this year. The primary reason we are migrating is that none of the current reporting tools/add-ons that we would like to...

Thanks, I will look into the service broker and see if that will do what we need. If anyone else has suggestions, any/all comments are appreciated.

Additional info:

The following output is from a trace run using the web service. Whenever I execute the queryex method, 4 separate queries are executed. The last one of which returns...

I never could get it to work cleanly using the KB info about the Kerberos issues / workarounds.

What I use (and has been working fine for years now) is to...

Unfortunately, I am not accessing this via a Web app, just a .Net Winforms application, so I'm afraid I cannot take this much further.

Im guessing you already did a google...

What error is being returned by the Web app? (copy paste the error text)

Is this an ASP.Net application? If not, what data query methodology are you using?

Are there other SQL...

Is your web application using the default account for anonymous queries (IIS_WPG in 2003/IIS6) or are you passing the username/password (of your SQL Login account) within your connection string? If...

I never got this working with Windows Authentication. Our DCs are now a combination of 2003 and 2008 and I still have not figured out the Kereberos issue mentioned in...

Stats for the Date index:

Jan 17 2009 3:01AM 7214977214971551.8559814E-612.0

For the ClientID:

Jan 17 2009 3:01AM 7214977214972001.2539848E-420.0

Auto Create and Auto Update statistics are checked for the db. (Auto shrink /...

Judging by the activity in this thread, obviously a hot topic/button for many - definitely some interesting opinions.

I've been on both sides of this issue. In the military and government...

Other than flogging the due-diligence team, what DID you end up doing?

I'm not sure of the 60 to 130k estimate, but that is a lot higher than most I know of, assuming you are still working and the majority of cost...

The table stores the basic information of our company email, HTMLBody is the HTML contents of the email body. It can vary from a few dozen words to a few...