Programming right isn't something difficult to learn, just the basics about it willl bring you a lot. But being a good programmer, and also dba will take much more effort...

Defensive coding : code that on all sides is safe, like always use else with if's, or check any results from for instance queries done on always filled tables.

Its...

Steve,

For what's it worth (I also write for magazines and know how hard it is when you don't get any response on a thing you wrote with all your...

Although SSIS is a very large improvement in regards to DTS sometimes I think it's a beta product shipped out as a final version, but it shows great potential! We...

"And if your specialty becomes strong enough and there's the demand, you might just find yourself working for a new boss: yourself."

I just love that sentence, I really am on...

I would like to go back to my years at the HTS (higher technical education in the Netherlands) It was a college with a lot of history, later on it...

Spacemonger is wonderfull .. and only about 230 kb in size ..

Also look at the options screen, delete can be disabled, and animations can also be disabled to increase speed....

I don't mind doing other things as long it's in the line of work I'm in, I'm hired as a software designer/builder but I also do some maintenance on sql...

Setup a new sql server, copy the database files to the new server if you can get them from the old system, and use attach (right click on databases in...

SQL2005 has a complete new thing called schema's (already an old thing in Oracle.. ;-)) in which the tables aren't owned by a user anymore but are owned by a...

Is the target file system also NTFS ? Fat has a 3 GB limit..

regards

Wim