A cursor is a structure that you acts on data. A table is a collection of data. A temp table or table var are also collections of data. They don't...

What is acceptable to your colleague? Are you talking the delay between the commit in server A and then on B?

I'd agree with Gail. The certs aren't going to help you learn 2008 or do the upgrade. It's the other way around.

No worries. The questions aren't here to mark you with a score. They're here to get you to think about things, and perhaps learn something.

And they teach me how to...

Are you trying to build something to read TDS streams?

I might start here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191220.aspx

or drop a note on this blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sql_protocols/

Since this is "The Thread", I wanted to note I've listed the code tags for the forums here:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic698708-83-1.aspx

Strange. Perhaps something intermittent.

I use the overall feed in Google Reader, works well for me.

Please create a new thread if you find issues.

I might be tempted to copy the file, rename it to the same name every day and let the restore then run. Works well if you move this to another...

Use the wizard, pick a dbase driver.

Here we do send quite a few emails. We have

Table1 - Emails, put in the actual email text. may have tokens embedded that are replaced at send time.

table2 - email...

It was 70F on Wed here!!!

Supposedly a foot today. only about 3-4" so far and slowing. Torn as I'd like to play baseball Sun, but if I can't, I wouldn't...

There are properties for databases you can query. Are you looking for this in T-SQL or SSMS? In SSMS, you can get the properties by right clicking a database.

For T-SQL,...

It could work, but why? Perhaps we have other ideas.

It could be caused by data as well. What does the proc do?