One more thing to differentiate MS SQL from ANSI Standards. Is this a good thing? Or should their be a concurrent push to make this an ANSI Standard...

"How good he did" is often a highly subjective measurement at higher levels unless you royally screw something up, it's not like we're in a factory cranking out X cogs...

I did acknowledge that some companies give raises based on merit. I worked for one place that evaluated everyone each year and said that based on performance you may...

I think the idea of publishing salaries is great. If a company wants to be dishonest and pay 2 people with the same experience and seniority doing the...

My wife and I spent a week on Victoria Island (just north of Seattle WA) without the kids. We spent 4 days hiking the Jean de Fuca marine trail...

Excellent discussion. I hope that the original UG leader that made the reported comment reads this article and the comments. Thanks for reporting on what you heard...

From the download page for upgrade advisor "Upgrade Advisor analyzes instances of SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 to help you prepare for upgrades to SQL Server 2008." ...

We use separate accounts but the password is stored in a secure vault. No one should be typically using these accounts but the are not set up as "non-logonable"...

I worked for a place using the stack rating system (i don't anymore) The ratings were tied to compensation. So management would decide that their salary budget could...

Good job. With responses like this these forums become more useful. Not only is there the code posted to solve an issue, but an explanation of the approach...

We are talking about the database transaction log, right? I assume you have been running a transaction log backup and the log doesn't shrink? If your log won't...

I am pretty sure this is just documentation. It is nice to know how may CALS there are so so can make sure your licencing is correctly paid for....

Wouldn't you pick the ame options as before? Has something changed with the users?

Instance 1 per Per seat for 5 devices

Instance 2 per Per seat for 8...

We still have SQL 2000 for one application that the vendor is still saying they are not yet ready to support a later version of SQL. This vendor has...

You could use the builtin database role db_datareader to grant access to see all the tables. I suspect this post should not be part of the Report Server 2008...