We're another "never used it" shop - there's always been another way so we haven't needed clr.

Bankruptcy also makes other non-obvious things difficult such as getting house insurance, as some companies won't insure a property where a bankrupt lives even if the policy holder is not...

I used Itzik Ben-Gan's solution using TOP to delete in chunks and added a truncate to the script to run every 30 iterations when I had 50 million rows to...

They need to remember that many of their enterprise level customers such as government agencies, civil service, banks etc. will be bound by security restrictions that prevent them using cloud...

Our "desktop" is a Wyse terminal to a server somewhere across the site with VMWare hosting our Win7 development environments. I'm told it is "PC over IP".

It means we can...

A bit late but the best SQL memory of 2013 was doing Itzik Ben-Gan's Advanced T-SQL course which stretched my braincells more than any other course I've done. Loads of...

I'm in the UK and have 31.5 days leave (1.5 added in place of compulsory shutdowns) which was 26.5 until 5 years service complete. Plus Bank Holidays. Then we work...

A Nokia Windows phone (my favourite) that acts as a proper pc with USB ports, so that I can plug a proper camera and a USB stick/external drive into it...

Why not just follow these instructions with your normal installation media?

http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1807/sql-server-2008-client-tools-installation/

Happy thanksgiving but if you want to get out of the work, go green and cut out the outside lights, thus reducing the ambient light in the rural setting, saving...

Where I work, staff have to display a current parking permit specific to the vehicle and visitors have to park in visitors car park (no staff allowed there) and register...

As well as the above, See if you can get a "clean" development VM to work on without the shed loads of other databases.

And keep looking for other jobs! :crazy:

How about the free reporting services scripter? http://thandor.net/article/28

I've used it to move loads of reports between servers with great ease.

That is just brilliant and I can immediately see a use on our NSN part numbers which are very similar format.

Thanks 🙂

I kept my married surname on divorce firstly because it was easiest to have the same family name as my school age children and also because it was simple and...