Barkingdog,

We have an application with many clients that have a few tables measured in the 100 millions of rows. These are proper meaty applications that do things spread over a...

Pooja,

You haven't explained why you want to do this or why this is so urgent to you.

If what you want is simply to perform the standard functions on ten...

It looks like a version 1 product really, with all that implies.

We are very much at the R&D stage with no plans to go further yet. I currently have a...

If it's the first instance try 192.168.1.10,1433 instead of 192.168.1.10\instance.

Using the port rather than the instance name often works.

Tim

Try

SELECT CAST('Àíäðåé ,Ãóëüøàò , Åêàòåðèíà , Ðèììà , Àëåêñåé , Äèàíà , Ðàèñà' as varchar(8000)) COLLATE Chinese_Traditional_Stroke_Order_100_CS_AS_KS_WS

I happen to be working in a similar area and I think this works...

I guess the lack of responses answers my question!

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We can all agree with that. It's very easy to decrypt.

Steve...

Steve Jones - Editor (5/17/2010)

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My argument is encryption of stored procedures isn't worth doing. It's a PIA and doesn't provide protection. It can be broken.

I see two arguments back.

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I can't follow some of the arguments on this thread...

Some say encryption is pointless because SQL Server encryption is easy to break - This is true but not an argument...

The site is brilliant in nearly every respect due in no small part to the editorial policy and the knowledge and goodwill of the individuals who contribute to it.

I...

There is also a product maturity point here.

Our main product is a heavy OLTP application and has been around since SQL Server 6.0. We used to have very significant problems...

Jeff, that is such an important point that it's a shame its buried here in response to the article posted here. It really warrants an article in its own right...

Do you just mean it is long?

I agree some...

Well said John. A simply stated and accurate introductory topic.

Can I hazard a guess that part two is on how to implement an effective and tested backup and recovery strategy?...

Still love the idea of a disclaimer on articles. Glad to hear you are investigating adopting it Steve.

However having come back to the thread after two days I now read...