If that's what I'm implying, I don't mean to. I mean that it's not that secret. What you can do with SQL is fairly limited and there aren't necessarily a...

Red Gate has Log Rescue for free if you want to try it http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql_log_rescue/index.htm

My argument is encryption of stored procedures isn't worth doing. It's a PIA and doesn't provide protection. It can be broken.

I see two arguments back.

- Customers mess with stored...

Protagonist.

My 11 yr old went to see Iron Man last night with my wife and this morning I asked him if Iron Man won. He said

"Iron Man always wins....

Thanks, been trying to get those down. After editing 5 articles last week that can't figure out how to use a "the"...

Not remove shrink. Remove auto-shrink.

If something expands to fill the disk, autoshrink won't prevent that. you will still need to, and can shrink the dbs.

We did that at one point here. Someone had sent us a plagiarized articles and we published them. It wasn't until about 6 months later that the person was caught....

jcrawf02 (5/17/2010)

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Um, Steve, not sure what's going on here, but the Database Weekly newsletter shows a link to this article: Are you Making This Common RAM Mistake?, which seems to...

I have worked with encryption and the arguments you give just don't make sense.

If the software is unencrypted, you can easily run a hash against the code to see if...

It is there now. I was getting a DNS error the other day. It is almost like a combination of a quiz site and a forum.

Good to hear, and good luck.

Hope to see you there.

It's all over the board. Perhaps if you explained a little more about what you are looking for and why, we could give you more information.

The definition of DBA is...

Please keep it professional. Asking for more information is acceptable, and encouraged. It's not necessarily for this post, but for future ones. Someone can knock out a solution in 5...

If you know Perl, and have connectivity, why not just copy each text file to your local machine? I'd consolidate the data on your one machine first. Make that a...

I guess I'm just not sure that encrypting really helps prevent theft of ideas. And it makes it entirely likely that you'll deploy the wrong version of something sometime because...