I had a lot of data conversion to do, so I wrote a VB program to move the data. Gupta uses a standard ODBC driver, so it's accessible with...

I wouldn't put a salary history for two reasons:

1. A $100K salary is a LOT different in Seattle or San Francisco as opposed to almost any other place in...

About six months ago work from home was taken away from me and my staff. So, as the editorial said, I don't check my email or monitor the network's...

Steve Jones - Editor (10/5/2007)

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John, can you post a screenshot and I'll add this to the list.

FYI, if you have Office 2007, I get misspelled words in forms underlined in...

Abraham Lincoln said something like that, though his IT skills were somewhat lacking.

If you have MS Office 2003, check out the MS Document Imaging. There's an OCR function in that -- it does a passable job of getting the text.

Worth a...

That's really unfair of your co-workers to say. Having a single backup overwrite itself is a display of complete incompetence as a DBA.

Need? What does need have to do with getting cool, new toys?

I had to share that with my son, who's a music major. His primary instrument is the marimba.

LOL!

Drew Carey once quipped "There's a support group for people to complain about their jobs. It's called 'the bar.'"

Joking aside, just about any message board would work. You...

I turned off mail notification and they now complete. Now, to figure out what needs to be done to fix mail.

Use xp_sendmail, with a query designed to look better? That will also accomplish the emailing part of the task:

exec master..xp_sendmail

@recipients = 'me@company.com;',

@subject = 'Server Drive Free Space',

@message =...

I'm not aware of a limit to the number of databases you can have on a single server (there probably is, but there are people who have hundreds of DBs...

@OUT will always be not null, because you initialize it to an empty string in usp_diskspace. Removing the "@OUT is not null" part of your if test should make...

The labels should be preceded by a colon [:]DTSERR without the brackets. (The board changes it to a smiley face.)