Thanks, but I do enjoy what I do. It's not a passion, but I'm not sure what that is for me.

My best days as a technologist as behind me. Not...

Run sp_configure (you might need to enable advanced settings) or check the server properties. c2 Audit more is a configuration setting.

I'm not saying you're wrong, and the MVP program is a nebulous beast, but that doesn't sound like discrimination against you for being a woman. Maybe for other reasons, but...

It is amazing that they're all not 99%. I can see people mis-clicking things, so I'm not sure it will be 100%, but I'm surprised msdb isn't higher.

I doubt Microsoft discriminated here, more that I think they were trying to cover up poor programming. That would make more sense.

Not that there isn't discrimination. There still is, but...

That may be a profiler thing. I didn't think this was counted as a password since it's a stored procedure parameter.

To be sure I'd ask your network people to...

Bill does a great job of showing those features. I might need to add those to our Question of the Day list!

You can run a trace with Profiler to check this, but I believe this is sent over the network.

You can put this in a stored procedure, which is arguably safer,...

The SQL Server error logs do not require must space. I doubt that those lots are taking up that much space, but check the amount of space in your error...

XPs call DLLs. What you would do is copy the DLL to the system and then register it as an extended stored procedure. There's no scripting to do here.

http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/sql-server-2005/encryption-without-the-confusion/

Or log from the package. You can have the package write a text file that you can use to troubleshoot.

Jan,

Good to hear you play baseball down under.

I've used Baseball Warehouse, but that's in the US. Not sure about shipping things to SA. You might also try Play It...

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Clustering/66246/

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Andras,

Thanks, I might try that.

I'm much better today, actually got to karate last night and did fine. I stayed away from back lifts, but the movement was OK. Looking...