Maybe they'll let you drive it around. Offer to "chauffer " kids one day around the parking lot to attract people.

And be sure you get a picture if they...

No hurry. I'll be out of town next week, but email me when you...

Paul means this model:

I'm not sure I agree with that, Colin. Depending on what the server is doing, 4GB could run it. It's a load issue.

Gail,

Thanks and either way. If you want to write it and deal with the comments, works for me. If not, it's an interesting thing to tackle.

On paid support. We talked...

Nice editorial, Brad, and glad to see you've changed your mind. I always recommend maintenance plans as a start. They work 80% of the time, and they are better than...

If this is running on a SQL 2000 server, use DTS. If it runs from SQL 2008, use SSIS.

In either case, you can use the Import Wizard to get you...

This is one of the main reasons you use roles. So you don't mess with this every time you add a user.

Correct, Tom. Thanks for that note. A transaction is required.

Thanks for all the great comments. We are not necessarily looking to put up more ads, but rather find other ways to interact with people.

I'll discuss this with my team...

Can you list exactly what is in the connection dialog?

Gail,

where was that from? It's interesting, and worth a little writing. I certainly have felt that way sometimes. Someone pinged me this weekend with an "urgent" thread. I replied that...

It's a self join, using the left outer join, to get one version of the table, and a second version of the table matching up the IDs, but off by...

that's annoying. I hope people don't answer them, and that was what I was worried with the #sqlhelp tag.

I do surface some interesting discussions on Twitter, but try not to...

Nebraska gets that great College World Series. Need to pop over some year and see it.