Hello and thanks for writing the article.

I have also written an article on how to get into a SQL server when completely locked out so I feel your pain...

Yes this is correct as per the authors of the book. Also, there is other memory reserved it not just 1GB of RAM.

Thank you all for the information.

I reason for the strange question is that our server team was to move several WMWare ESX servers from our current AMD system to a...

Because the Windows Core server has no GUI, you need to run SSMS from your desktop. You should be able to do all your work from there. Make sure you...

Thanks Keith. I'm just trying to help spead the word that Cloud computing his another "oursource" mistake.

Now I hear people say "Hey what about our development servers?" That could be...

Not a Mainframer but have been around the block so many times that I lost track.

Anyway the way I see it; Cloud service is just another type of outsourcing. Remember...

No sure if this will help but we had a problem with a 64bit SQL server and Oracle support said to only install the 32bit client into the SQL server....

daveriya (6/6/2011)

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if you installed oracle client on sql server ,then what is the use of if.u need to create linked server to oracle client and then oracle client make...

Well said!

I believe that the exams have to be updated in the sense that they need to reflect real world situations and not memorizing BOL.

Here is what I...

In my article ORACLESRV1 is the server name. Maybe you should first try to setup the link connection with the GUI. Once you see it working then you can modify...

You need to change the "ORACLESRV1" parameter to your server name. Verify all your setting and try again. If you have an Oracle DBA than ask them for some help....

This is the serivce name which is...

I believe the limit is set to 1000. Not sure of a work around so you may have to discuss with your Network/Windows administrators.

You may have to divide your...

My apologies to...

Thank for the updated version. It's strange that the script was messed up. When I submitted the code it looked good but now I see that it's showing up as...