First, get more disk space. Don't talk to your manager about how much free space you have. You need a decent amount of free space in the data files, so...

Just a note that I used to manage a team of 10 DBAs. I was the next to lowest paid person in the group. This was at a large 10,000+...

good editorial, and nice reminder, Grant.

When I'm with Scouts, if we're out in the woods and something breaks, you need to have things to respond to that emergency. same thing...

It's amazing to see some of the responses here.

Men and women can both work in IT, and both excel. I doubt there is any real difference in their physical...

I see The Thread is alive and well. Happy 2010 to everyone.

I am closing this thread as it is going nowhere. If you have a real question, please take the time to write it out.

http://www.apexsql.com/sql_tools_log.asp

Looks like Lumigent doesn't just sell Log Explorer anymore, no idea on Quest.

Ugh, sorry, I was looking at the code block and didn't see the query above. I've put it back the way it was to keep Hugo happy 🙂

As jcdyntek noted, if you are getting this sorting, likely you have character storage.

"1" comes before "12" in terms of character values, and "1/10/2010" comes before "1/2/2010" as well. 1...

My apologies. It made sense to me, but really what is being asked is how many rows are inserted.

I have edited the question.

This one is pretty good, especially now.

Don't you think that you ought to become an apprentice first?

SQL Server is too wide for this question. If you want to learn about SQL Server, read an article. See...

D.Oc,

We have an F# review coming out this week of a book. Looks interesting.

Jeff,

C'mon, make it a resolution. Be good for you to stretch into SSIS, might even come up...

I agree with Jeff. The issue is that you could issue this:

bcp...

bcp...

bcp...

if errorlevel = 0 then notify

However there are many places things could fail. At any point before the IF...

I agree, we should be able to have all versions side by side. I voted and tweeted this one.