I think if you implement this you'll have people forgetting to enter stuff at first, which will cause you issues up front. They'll get used to it with nagging, but...

I think you did alright, Grant. Typical response for people that don't want to think about issues, just solve what they think is the problem.

It's always a good time to start a business if you have an idea and are willing to work at it. You need funding, and I urge people to make...

Got a web site? Could use some new shirts for Fridays

And here I was thinking pork chops were pork chops, not developers' heads.

What accounts are running SQL? I might change them to LocalService and then back again with EM to reset permissions.

Well, I offered him a refund. We'll see if he follows up.

I get asked for refunds once a month.

Happy to send you back what you sent to me! 😛

Moving to 2005 security forum for now.

Lend me a kilt and I'll put one one!!

Thanks for the note and I do appreciate the kind words. I'd wear the Gears of War shirt, but my middle son...

I'd do the restart first. If that didn't work, I'd uninstall and reinstall SSMS.

Do you mean running SSMS from the server?

Does it do it with all tables? In all databases? What about connecting to another instance?

Mattie,

I'd love to see in a few months how this has worked out. How the new programmer does and how well others learn/pick up the language.

I'd agree with Wayne on sizes as well. Most of the dbs I've managed have been low GBs. Even when we had a 700GB reporting db, we had hundreds of...

Checking the BCHR takes only a few seconds and it gives me a quick thumb view of "is there more than this complaint?" coming. Helps me to quickly size up...