Problem is, there's no standard method for that which works world-wide. If you're using codepage 437 (which I believe US versions of Windows do) then holding Alt while typing 236...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/7/2014)

I disagree on the pay. For the most part, managers don't end up taking the heat in practice. Especially when they make more. They quickly...

Surely no-one would ever *want* to be a manager if they were paid less than the people they're overseeing? I certainly wouldn't want to do that job! 🙂

Isn't the thing with using NOLOCK on a table that isn't being updated that it effectively becomes a complete no-operation? If the table isn't being updated then no locks will...

Curses, I was hovering over "tinyint" for a good 30 seconds before deciding that no, "Bit" was probably the correct answer... 🙂

Is it? I can't recall a situation where I've actually used this facility, although I knew the correct answer...would be interested...

For certain values of "works"... 🙂

I'm wondering why Option 1 is such a concern? Only someone who has domain admin access should be able to edit the users in the AD group, and if someone...

Are you sure he used a knife and not a shotgun? 🙂

No, no backups from another source. What seems to be happening is that a previous backup simply never finishes for some reason (and there are 24 hours between backups, so...

He's using Evaluation Edition, which is supported on Win7 according to this:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29066

Pah! Everyone knows that...

And that's supposed to be somehow clearer than having explicit block start and end terminators? :blink:

Python? Isn't that the one where the amount of whitespace at the start of each line is part of the syntax of the language? Never even liked the sound of...

No, why would I be doing that? It's a strictly sequential operation.