You're trying to send mail from within the package? Or from Access?

I think there is some value in understanding as a employee/manager that you can do your best, do good/great work, and still have a product that fails for any number...

Im sure some of the golf things goes on, but probably not as often as you might think (short of the ERP sized deals!). IT people are good at evaluating...

I tend to use RAID5 with a battery backed controller, and often with a hot spare configured when using the 14/15 drive sets. Have had drives fail a number of...

You can fiind the PASS groups here: http://www.sqlpass.org/community/usergroups/index.cfm, and .Net groups here: http://www.ineta.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid=20

Perhaps, though I don't think its that simple. I don't think its just time pressure, many IT pros just don't appreciate the value of talking with someone who does something...

Well, I only have one meetings worth of experience to share, but it pretty well. I tried to be the moderator/instigator. For example, we had a recruiter present so I...

User groups definitely have to focus on networking more to survive, too easy to just get technical content online. There is real value in having a conversation with someone in...

With heavy updates you might end up better off with snapshot replication because the volume of proc calls to apply the change might exceed the cost of just shipping over...

A fair point about the last book being about SQL 2000 rather than SQL 2005. As far as a holistic perspective you're right that both the 2005 books are specialized,...

I haven't read it, but will order it. I've got a couple queued ahead of it, but I should get there in the next couple months.

Im ok with books in...

It's easy to complain about micro managing, but it's an easy trap to fall into.  All it takes is for the troops to hang you out to dry a couple...

How did you like the mini-review format rather than the more typical table of contents followed by discussion format?

Hey, its better than Snitz - at least the version we had, what a bunch of spaghetti/sql injection waiting to happen! And to be fair, InstantForum is pretty decent software...

Interesting. I'd be curious to see the query plan on the bigint implementation, and a link to the UDT implementation if anyone has one (though I agree the overhead in...