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I have a number of enhancements I am meaning to ask them for.

We used to use Snitz, which is free and works well. Might also try...

Suggestions/comments are welcome. We are looking to revamp some of this.

Thanks for the update. I was stumped on this, wondering what could be wrong. If it happens again, please post a note.

I believe this is running under the SQL Agent account in 2000, or possibly running under the owner of the job. Check both of those accounts and see if they...

Unfortunately, that is the attitude in too many government agencies. Al Gore did a lot of work to try and get departments/groups to reinvent themselves in the mid-90s. He succeeded...

Even in the large enterprises, and I've worked in a few, we have had quite a few servers/applications, that barely needed any of the functionality of SQL Server. So many...

I think any of the certification books will help you. They all organize you to go through the things you need to learn. The important things are that you actually...

Charles, that's a good list. I need to keep that one around.

I'm with Bruce, I'm amazed and in awe of what you did. And I'm glad no one held a grudge.

Don't eat the dead, but a few may get left laying around.

Our coach used to scream at us in soccer. The idea was to develop footwork, but too often we'd...

http://www.steverrobbins.com/articles/ceojob.htm

There is no standard. These versions comply or claim to comply, to a version of SQL, possibly a version of Java, or some other standard.

Check the documentation for each version....

Nope, not a soccer player or soccer parent at all.

Ex-rugby player forced to play soccer at practice sometimes. More fun when it's full contact 🙂

ANSI is a group that publishes standards.

You never need to follow a standard, but doing so makes your product more compatible.

http://www.service-architecture.com/database/articles/

There are various standards for SQL, which is what...

I shall ask

There should be a [ code2 ] set of tags for XML as well.