Steve we have read enough of your work here on SSC to know that your abstract effectively describes your presentation. If there are highlights in your actual presentation...

This is a quick fix, however if 2008 Express...

mwk (1/20/2011)

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I have a database that is at the 4096MB limit. I already backed up

the database, but just want to make room by deleting the older records.

Is there...

Hmmmm

The quotes aside .. Jeff a great article with more sample code than most of us deserve.

Thanks, as I put...

This should make a lot of those who help others, know that someone appreciates all the work they do

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1050398-391-1.aspx

Good question

Careful, this shows when the table structure was modified, i.e., add a column,...

Others will most likely be more helpful than myself, the only way I can think of performing what you want to do is to combine the date columns (BEGINDATE and...

Joe

Isn't your question about Dijkstra, answered by your own words:

They are mostly old...

Do you mean that the MERGE statement in SQL 2008 should NOT exist, because of some one who ranks himself/herself...

To help people here to help you, please post your table definition, sample data in a readily useable format. To do this please click on the first link in...

For Objects of type P, RF, V, TR, FN, IF, TF, and R try this:

SELECT * FROM sys.sql_modules

Which gives you all you want to know. You will...

The answer to your question is the almost standard answer to any T-SQL question, that is "It depends".

Before making your decision I strongly suggest that you spend some...

You may wish to read this:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190969.aspx

To gain some insight into how a database size grows.

To gain a feeling for your particular tables growth perhaps this will give you some insight,

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924947

I am not sure that I understand your question completely. The service pack is NOT appiled to what on the CD.

1. Instal what is on the CD to...