I have SQL Express 2008 installed in a WinXP instance under VMWare fusion. FYI, SQL Express 2008 needs XP or better, but 2005 can still run on Win2K. ...

Ohhh... your developers are lazy. Just kidding... sort of.

FYI, I'm a java developer who deals with SQL Server most often on the back-end.

To be polite, I'll say that MS...

Since I haven't been an active forum member, I should mention my experience.

I'm a chemistry Ph.D. who worked in a pharmaceutical company method development R&D lab. I also prepared...

Is the problem reproducible?

Can you get a trace to see what is actually being executed?

This kind of error can be returned if, for example, you are trying to retrieve a...

Are there specific formatting requirements that will tell you if you need a partial search? For example, if you have North American phone numbers only, and you have a...

It would help to know the source of the data. For example, PHP programs tend to store times as the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 - in...