This is my thought on this issue and I always tell my boss (no matter where I am working):

If you think paying for training and watching your employees go is...

Ok glad you figure it out. I have been caught by this issue before too 🙂

With PUSH subscriptions you don't need to share the snapshot Folder.

Definitely you have to maintain some "developer control" on your workflow 😉

Honestly I don't understand how much faster do you get when BOL has the "return type" and is very easy to bookmark/use 😉

Note: Temp tables can also leave in memory, not necessarily always in the harddrive. When a system uses replication heavily you should try to minimize all changes on the "replicated"...

Happy birthday Steve!

I do feel terrible when your expectations (and money) are waisted. You try to get the best out of a presentation but you end up being unable to justify to...

How do you connect to SQL Server from Unix? What language/tools/libriaries do you use ?

With SQL Server Trace you should select RPC:Completed, Statement:Completed and Batch:Completed.

sp_execute is called right after catching(compiling) an statement

When you issue an UPDATE statement you could specify a TABLE level Lock (TABLOCK) that way only one of them is accessing one table at a time. If you want...

Posting sample DDL of your tables can help us help you with the queries

The only difference could be that I did not speified the NULLABILITY and therefore it makes a tiny bit of a difference but that can also be solved with ISNULL()...

Is this the White Paper we are talking about ?

Working with tempdb in SQL Server 2005

sounds like a job for a CUBE