blandry (4/27/2011)

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Good editorial... But lets be honest about it, each year or so companies and individuals all over the world "upgrade" their software for no good reason at all....

Michael Valentine Jones (4/27/2011)

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A situation I have run into a is old software that is no longer supported by the vendor or the vendor is out of business. Getting...

Richard Warr (4/27/2011)

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Nice question and an interesting example. Would renaming the columns "Telephone 1" and "Telephone 2" to "Home Phone" and "Mobile Phone" mean that the table was then in...

Performance varies. R5 has a write penalty, but it's not that huge unless you are really stressing the system.

The bigger thing is reliability, especially if you buy drives from the...

BTW, are notifications back to normal for everyone?

The specifications you have given may or may not be appropriate. It really depends on the workload and throughput you need to respond to certain queries, as mentioned above. Is...

Yes, they are

I was working on one at 4am Monday. Not sure...

Did you install 2008 or 2005 first?

Short story: My friend arranged a "fly over" for the girl scout brownies that were transitioning from Brownies to Cadets at a small airpark about 2mi from my house. It's...

I think you must have something corrupted. The repair might not actually fix things. I would think you might need to uninstall the client tools, reboot, then reinstall, but I'd...

Ron Porter (4/26/2011)

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I have a different problem. I'd like an extra week (or 2!) of paid vacation. I'd like a 32-hour, 4-day work week. I know what the direct costs...

Michael Lato (4/26/2011)

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I must agree with a previous poster that wonders why we should take a pay cut for the "privilege" of working from home. It saves the company...

nico van niekerk (4/26/2011)

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One can understand that employers would be reluctant to allow someone with whom they have no trust-relationship to work at home. There are a multitude of distractions...

Aaron has an excellent point. I never move files, so it doesn't occur to me to mention it, but you should never MOVE a database file. If there is an...