I demand a re-count!!!!! How can I put up 143 points and still lose???? And how can I score the second most amount of points in the league...

Tater, if there's room next year you're definitely in.

Looks like a mad scramble for the 5th and 6th seeds, should be a fun weekend.

Three games tomorrow for Thanksgiving so make...

Something like this?

http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1522/searching-and-finding-a-string-value-in-all-columns-in-a-sql-server-table/

Steve's already got me beat and has V. Davis going tonight. I tried talkin' some trash on Twitter but he wasn't biting.

For anyone else on Twitter, I've...

Thursday night game, get your lineups updated. I'll try and post a weekly round up later today.

The season is starting to shape up, still some good battles going on.

WTG Rodders! And since you beat Mitch, I get to haze him all week.

Your linked server is working, it's getting connected to Oracle without having to specify 'username@service' that's the problem. Were you able to search the Oracle forums to find an...

You definitely need to give it a provider. We're you able to modify that user name?

Ask them about their backup process: how it's done, how often, where the backups live, who to talk to retrieve backups from tape, how do they monitor the backup process....

I vaguely recall running into something like that...the Oracle forums are probably your friend, now.

In your linked server set up, try setting the username as '<user>@<servicename>' and see what happens....

Ok with me =)

I got "whalloped" by the Soldiers...1.2 points. Fantasy football makes me bald.

Interestingly enough, for the top five point getters, only two have winning records:

Ditka (7-2) 1141.64

Select * (5-5) 1046.36

SSC...

I looked in the Oracle doc, you'll want to open and use the Oracle Net Configuration Assistant. It's the GUI that'll create and update your TNSNames.ora file:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/install.102/b15684/post_install.htm#CHDBIHEE

Once you establish...

Try running with what you have. Open up SSMS, connect to your instance and go to Server Objects > Linked Servers > Providers. Follow the steps from the...

IIRC, the Oracle client install should have installed the Oracle command line utility 'sqlplus'. If the location of 'sqlplus' was entered into your %PATH% variable, you can open a...