Jim,

thanks and we've considered it, but part of what we want to do is build the site up. We could include the next post, but that's more bandwidth (we burn...

SQL Server should prompt for name and password with SQL Auth unless you have them saved. That's the way it goes. You can pass them in with the connection string...

You'll have to make an attempt and give us a little more direction.

CREATE PROCEDURE myProc

@param1 int = 1

as

is the starting point to create a procedure with a parameter....

I'm curious as to why you're interested and we certainly don't want people to have a goal of boosting their counts without adding to the site. We want good answers...

There was a guy in the UK (Andrew I think), that pinged me and actually moved over to Denver a few years back. I'm not sure I have his contact...

Well I'd have liked to see the Eagle a couple years ago, but > $100 a ticket at an outdoor football stadium wasn't what I had in mind.

We've seen three...

Can anyone having issues with the newsletter send their client, OS, and screenshot to the webmaster at sqlservercentral.com? The newsletters appear fine on test systems, easily fitting inside 800x600.

Charles, a...

The problem is what is says. The key you're entering is not valid.

Search for reviews on Live/google. There are places that have information about what these are and how they perform.

Second Jacob's advice. Especially in a virtual environment, be sure that your LUNs are physically separate and try to separate the storage paths as much as possible.

also, don't allow your...

As Ken mentioned, you can set a job to run as SQL Agnet or another proxy account, so it's probably set for one of those.

Use varchar(max)

could it be pathing to isql? I've seen some strange behavior with sybase and MS isql programs and environment paths.

Well said Brian.

and cognospam, if you haven't disparaged people with your first statement, I'm not sure I'd like to see it when you do.

no one here claims MVPs are the...

Looks like they're right here.

Or we have someone upset they didn't get some recognition.