Strict timekeeping doesn't make sense unless you're being paid hourly. People will do the work or they won't, and that's what you track.

I usually let people know in an interview...

CAST works, but without seeing data or errors (or attempts) we have no way to help.

The error messages are usually obvious. You might not like what you're seeing, but they...

Quite a few slick car salesman here in the US have great soft skills. Not sure that's good.

Yikes, ouch, hey!:P

I'm slow, apparently in more ways than one, but it's corrected. No spell checked in that text box :w00t:

-E does trusted connections (as noted above).

-U/P is for SQL Authentication.

You can only choose one for your connection.

Why not just use the SELECT UNIONS instead of the temp tables in the select? It appears that you're using static values in there.

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa213025(SQL.80).aspx

what does the error log show for listeners?

what about netstat -a?

Run a trace. There must be some shrink command being run.

Is there a listener on #1? Check the error log, be sure that it's listening for remote connections. It could be set to only local connections.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure that I'll eliminate them since it adds a lot to the processing time (can't let it run) and many people seem to like...

Are you capturing suser_sname() as well?

If you have permissions denied, there shouldn't be a way they can update the column. I bet you have some strange permissions mismatch.

Can you check...

1. Yes, less resources available.

2. Depends, SErver is better suited to server resource management. for one user, probably not.

3. You change this to match needs, there is no better. If...

Use CAST to convert data types.

Not sure about that algorithm, but one way hashes seem to work well. Just be careful that someone can't copy the hash and submit that in your application. Only plaintext...