Steve, your grouping idea was a good one... off the top of your head, or not.  If you have built your database using a design tool, like ER/Win, you may...

Force explicit type... delimit your string with quotes.  don't allow it to be converted to integer.

It cannot be created in Express.  I can run against the Express instance.

The "master" database is for SQL Server operation, as described in this thread.  The “msdb” contains system-wide information such as log shipping, replication information, backup history, and marked transaction information. Because...

I am having this problem, too.  After researching I find that it has been around since 1999 (+/-) and nobody seems to have an answer.  Since we are having problems...

Thank you.  that makes perfect sense

I do appreciate it... nice to be up to date, more or less.

I must have really been having a bad day yesterday.  Since you really do not configure resources on SQL server like you do on Oracle, perhaps this does not really...

My apologies for the snide answer... it just seemed hard to believe that you were sitting on the answer and possibly had not tried it for ten hours.  Thanks to...