Chef.

so far today I've cooked:

- hash browns

- scrambled eggs

- bacon (twice)

- chocolate chip waffles

- popcorn

- iced tea

- coffee

- bunches of hay (not really cooked, but it requires effort to distribute)

Well I still wish I was Ben Kenobi. The older I get, the more...

Sorry, I won't be looking back here for the contest, but nice try, greg.

The ScaryDBA.com link seems to work for me.

Use CAST or CONVERT for to_char to convert data to strings.

You haven't really asked a question here. What is the problem? Can you not just grant the rights you listed in each environment to the appropriate users/groups?

nice! I love my quad core, 8GB desktop. Be interested to see where you Windows Experience Index comes in. Mine is 4.6

My lunch yesterday

jcrawf02 (12/7/2010)

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RE: Phil McCracken and SQL Spackle

In case anyone had any doubt about the value of these articles, wanted to share that Jeff's Contiguous Date article today was exactly what...

Brandie Tarvin (12/7/2010)

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I have to wonder if this thread is encouraging people to respond more harshly to articles, posts, etc. Certain we've seen an uptick amongst ourselves of bashing other...

I would. It should patch things up. SP2 had a couple maintenance plan bugs that were fixed in a CU, but if you're going to patch, I'd just go and...

This

Makes no sense. What is "never occur: exists?"

Please spend more than 10 sec and write something that describes the...

It is a permissions error. Likely you have a problem with the client or your account having permissions to the tool.

Can you use your account and run a backup from...

Are you sure this isn't a join you need to make?

It's hard to say what you need without more information. As Nigel mentioned, cross apply might do what you want,...

I'd tend to agree with GSquared. 1GB of RAM is tiny, and you might easily be causing yourself issues with that little memory. Between that and the disk IO, most...

Kenneth Wymore (12/6/2010)

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I think this could be a whole other forum discussion. "How much of your time is spent doing work other than coding and how much time do you...