But he said he's using the same server (so security should not be issue) and wants to know if a stored procedure can be created to duplicate his production database.  I...

There's a good introductory article here that will give the basics:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sburke/introductiontosql-dmo.asp

It's sort of an inside joke.  On another thread I tried to post when we were having some problems with our ISP.  Then when I looked again, I had three...

"You must bring us a shrubbery!"

Or one that fits my workplace most every day...

"Run away!  Run away!"

Phill is making me think about resuscitating my old signature line from Brave Sir...

Another thing I thought of just now after posting (and sushila, I am not trying to boost my post count )...

Depending on the version...

We did this last year with the assistance of a vendor.  They had a custom utility to do it, but basically all this did was run a bunch of BCP...

I feel SSC's pain.  I could get sooo much more done if it wasn't for all these bothersome 'users' I have to support. 

One for the Microsoft Bashers...

Just ran across this on a Tech support site:

"They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you will hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, if you play it...

I really don't know what happened there...we've been having problems with Internet access all day so I'll blame it on our ISP.  I hit...

Oops - just re-read your post.  The link I sent only tells you the current version.  I think you could collect an update history if you were using SMS, but...

Oops - just re-read your post.  The link I sent only tells you the current version.  I think you could collect an update history if you were using SMS, but...

Oops - just re-read your post.  The link I sent only tells you the current version.  I think you could collect an update history if you were using SMS, but...

Please see the following from Microsoft:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321185

Farrell,

I have friends like that.  One in particular swears that she can tell when her memory stick is getting full because it gets 'heavier'. 

Thanks Farrell...my bad.  I should have pasted in to my Latin collation Query Analyzer syntax checker first. 

I have seriously thought about changing...