My experience with BI is that it tends to be targetted at the Sales/Marketing functions.

I have yet to meet a sales/marketing person who is au fait with even the basic...

Providing they don't want to sit out after curfew!

Actually Steve we have had the IRA for over 30 years. They even bombed the local army barracks which considering it is in rural Shropshire was pretty unlikely.

So do...

The London attacks could have been so much worse, however the most damaging thing has been that the bombers were home grown and from an identifiable section of society.

The harm...

The TechEd on SQL2005 made a big play about BI.

The general gist was that Microsoft had been surprised by the uses that people have put DTS to with regard to...

The problem in the US is that your fuel is incredibly cheap next to European prices.

My Father-in-law bought a small hatchback known as a Skoda Fabia RS. 0-60 in...

LPG wouldn't be that much of a burden to the current infrastructure, it's just a liquid albeit under high pressure. If you are into camping then most towns have...

How do I stop smilies appearing in my forum posts?

I find that the RegEx coach is a useful tool for checking RegEx.

Also try http://www.regexlib.com/

The following evaluates UK dates and takes account of leap years etc.

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To use an analogy the CLR is rather like electric power tools.

In the hands of a competent person they are a God send allowing jobs that would otherwise be difficult...

In the UK 85% of the price of petrol is tax and we are at the £4 gallon (a US gallon is 5/8 of a UK one).

The UK is incredibly...

Chris,

If you have a bog standard SQL2000 function, for the sake of argument it multiplies one argument by another and you write a query that applies that function to records...

Coal's to Newcastle! Well if you've ever tried Newcastle Brown you would prefer to drink their coal. Apparently it is known as a bottle of dog because they...

Mike, studies trying to correlate factors such as low pay, bad environment etc with turnover tend to look at employees as units to be correlated rather than human beings.

How...

I don't need to. He is a noted trombone player and you can visit his web site for yourself!

I agree with the assessment on the breadth of his knowledge...