My 8 year old has seen the movies at least 4 times, and has a ton of Star Wars Lego sets. He loves it. We also play Lego Starwars on...

With the same education I have now, I would be an accountant or clerk. If we take family history into account, it would be either farming or ranching. I have...

With MERS, there's also the issue that many governmental entities responsible for recording this sort of data require that every transaction be properly recorded to be legal. That means as...

alen teplitsky (9/7/2010)

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since PETA is in DC and there are a lot of nice steakhouses, i wonder how they would react to someone eating a porterhouse medium rare in the...

Does the data have to go over the wire, or could you just buy a few 1TB USB drives and send them back and forth? Sending a few hundred gigs...

If a user doesn't need to view certain data except in an emergency, give tham another ID to use for the emergencies, and log the use of that ID. Grant...

WayneS (8/26/2010)

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Stefan Krzywicki (8/26/2010)

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On a side note, why busses? Why aren't people in these theoreticals brought up in too many meetings ever hit by taxis, trucks, private cars, trains, boats,...

Jack Corbett (8/23/2010)

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Steve Jones - Editor (8/23/2010)

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I saw that from Brent. Paul is garnering lots of respect from the other gurus.

We need to get Paul out here in the US...

Grant Fritchey (11/10/2008)

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Not unless I've missed it to. If the value of a number is -3, it's -3, not 3 with some negative sign kept elsewhere that may or may...

Once you've done the full backup, use a zip utility to compress the backup file. With our databases, a 6GB back compresses to under 400MB. That should reduce the impact...

I've always loved going to the vendor with a concern on security, especially use of sa, or requiring some sort of sysadmin access, and getting the response "Gee, none of...

In our environment, we restricted the use of tools like Query Analyzer to those folks who needed them to do thier jobs. Normal users can't install any of the SQL...

If the data is coming from a system that stores both the local currency and USD, which is most ERP and accounting systems in use these days, then just pull...

I've seen this sort of format before. It seems to be common for transferring data to mainframe and midrange based systems that may not use a RDBMS. I've seen this...

Oldware - Using a release from 10 years ago because no one wants to pay for the upgrade, and, "hey, it still works". This usually bites you hard when you...