I should have mentioned taxes, but the only difference I'm aware of in the US is that if you contract directly, you pay 15% self employment tax v 7.5% FICA.

While...

English is a mess, and probably the fault of my fellow Americans, so I'll apologize for the alterations, inconsistency, and just general silliness of our alterations to the "Queen's English"....

From a reader/listener (attached): rename as .wav

Sums it up nicely.

I'll chime in here, with kids off to school and a cup of coffee to enjoy the comments with.

I've started the second part, but lots of your ideas will be...

Guess the spell checker didn't help with my acronyms. I had to look a few up to write the editorial and I mis-spelled (Does that make sense?) them.

Acronyms make sense...

Lunchtime is when many people do it, but I've often found lunch not respected and plenty of "working lunches".

I think separate from lunch, or maybe an extended lunch, or just...

I admit, I strayed, though I think it's more of a moral issue than political. At least that's what I intended.

I think the US has issues, but I hear as...

Don't think so, but sent a note to some people at MS.

I don't know, but I sent an email to someone that works there. Hopefully I'll get a response soon.

I haven't. Are you not including any columns in the ADO insert?

I hope they can't make changes to exclude people. As much as I think you have a personal responsibility, some things aren't your fault and as a society and group...

That calls for a part 2, Bert!

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Follow the above advice and Re-test everything! Especially beforehand on the 64-bit server if you can. Check alerts, mail, other things that might be set up on the SQL 2000...

David,

Thanks for the update and I'm sure someone else will appreciate it in the future.

Enjoy the day now that the crisis is solved! 😉

How did you try to change it? SSMS or T-SQL?

I might try an ALTER DATABASE command and see. Alternatively, can you stop replication and try to shrink the log file,...