Please post questions in the appropriate forum. This forum is for author comments. Moving to 2005-admin.

If you have questions, just post in a forum, someone will see it and try...

I think the classification is just to have a frame of reference. It does always change, but it helps to get an idea of scale for how your system might...

Real football starts soon, looking forward to playing hooky and watching a little training camp.

Footie-ball/play acting, that Lynn ref's I think never stops.

I have removed the account of our (un)professional1 friend from the system and deleted threads. Apologies to those of you that had to deal with him/her. It was a bogus...

Or provide more information. A view isn't anything more than a query that is written over a table(s). The query optimizer looks at that query and includes it in the...

you want to run this restore while you are connected to the Master database, not the one you are restoring.

The log is always written to first, before data changes are made. So if the log is slow, meaning the I/O channel, then performance can suffer.

These look like C# of VB.NET questions, not SQL Server.

You can test these, write a loop to build 10,000 of each one, look at the cost/time of each.

Which choices?

I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this question. Are you programming something? You might want to post this on a more appropriate site.

You have someone connected to the database, perhaps even you. You need to remove everyone from the database before you can restore.

There's not enough information for us. What does a log in or log out mean? Where do you keep the data? You are getting the cartID or the sessionID, but...

Congrats Grant and Gail as well!

I'm an alternate, fine by me. Jeff, any word for you?

OK, I have finally updated the database and corrected the question to say "SQL Server, and "unicode characters" as well as awarded points back.

My apologies for this.

No idea on security here, but we have one login for the web app, in a role, basic db security.

There are roles in the db tables, so I assume they...