I've mentioned it before but during the industrial revolution one of the big Lancashire mill owners discovered that if employees only had to work 14 hours a day instead of...

There are two sorts of bunking off when you are not physically sick.

1. You are swinging the leg because you fancy a day off.

2. You are burnt out and need...

Personally I would be very surprised if it could but in the old days of the Commodore Pet you could POKE a location with a certain value and the motherboard...

I looked into creating extended stored procedures but I found that they were more trouble than they were worth.

I took to creating ActiveX DLLs and using sp_OACreate etc to instantiate...

What build number do you get when your run SELECT @@VERSION?

Is it 2 separate users firing these processes or a single user?

If it is one person firing off one command...

You don't actually seem to be using t_HAFAccount so why use it in the join. Assuming that you are actually going to use it and the query isn't finished...

OK encrypt your procs but make sure that you have scripts should you need to get hold of them. Frankly it is more trouble than it is worth.

I wouldn't...

How do they name hurricanes anyway?

What they don't tell blokes about marriage is that you evolve a new sense organ called the marital radar. It pings like crazy when...

Thanks Rudy,

We are currently experiencing the old TempDB contention issue that was partially fixed by Hotfix 818. We are running back at SP3a on build 760.

I am going to...

I had more or less decided to set the initial size to 4GB as creating such a file on the SAN is a surprisingly quick operation.

I was thinking of fixed...

Correct!

The performance of the stored procedure using the new table instead of the view is lower than when using the view alone.

It is an absolutely crazy result, especially as the...

For confidentiallity reasons I cannot post the actual view or the stored procedure but if you imagine the table is something similar to the following

AccountID INT

LineNo INT

SalesValue MONEY ,

CostValue MONEY...

Little fleas have bigger fleas upon their backs to bite them.

Bigger Fleas have greater fleas and so on ad infinitum.

That's my view of management.

As an employee I may get frustrated...

If I see a review that is all roses I look for the fertilizer. If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is.

If a review is...

The thing is it wasn't just the .com startups that got into difficulty, it was the infrastructure guys as well.

British Telecom decided that what Britain needed was a high speed...