Boy, Steve, you nailed this one! I work in an industry closely related to healthcare (it isn't really, but there are similarities), and our budget is shrinking constantly (20%...

Ron Porter (6/8/2011)

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I have a question related to the fact that there seems to be a lot of demand that programmers have a bunch of their own work to show...

This is a tough question. I work for a university, and when I've been involved in interviewing people for open positions I've learned how hard that is. For...

Good points, Steve.

I agree. Some other word would probably have done...

Really?! Man, I'm amazed, about rich text and what we've stored in our varchar(max) fields. WOW. That's like an epithany, at least on a small scale. ...

Steve,...

Ninja's_RGR'us (5/24/2011)

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If you really want to transfer everything I'd look into access based upsizing wizards. I don't have any recommandations, but those will be built by and for people...

Eddie Wuerch (5/16/2011)

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Are you running the RTM version of SSMS 2005? That was the case with the original version, to present 'look, we're more secure this way', but after everyone...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/16/2011)

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If you have an active connection, you can open all of them without issue. Is there a reason you can't make one connection and leave...

I had planned on creating the database just once, on my development machine, and then copying it to each user's area, using whatever deployment option I eventually use.

GilaMonster (4/21/2011)

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It's referred to as SQL 11 because the major version number is 11. SQL 2008 was version 10.0, SQL...

Sorry if it makes it confusing. It depends upon the situation. Normally when I ask from one account I'm only interested in that situation, but am not going...

I did put it on a test box, some months ago. It's worked fine there ever since.

And this past weekend I installed it on our production database server. ...

I'm at work now. Thank you for the input, and I've now got the full database backup.