Wow, a complement!

Thanks and glad you like it. We're always working on more.

I wouldn't do this. There are places that require coursework (stockbrokers, etc), but not the IT jobs. Most of those places pay for the training.

This sounds like they're either...

Depends on how much you have in

Not been a fun ride, but things have improved a bit over the last week.

I think Bob wants a Prius

Actually my Prius has plenty of buttons, knobs, etc.

The TPC thing is contrived, no doubt about it. But...

I know that there are people out there reading and working with multiple languages. That's cool, wish I could, etc. And Live gives you the option to search in any...

If you want to use the basic maintenance plans across servers, the best bet is to use master/target servers and have a central server where you create the plan and...

Ed is corrent. The "native" backups are made with native tools that ship with SQL Server. If you install Litespeed, SQL Backup, BMC's backup, etc., then you are working with...

Martin,

I'd be interested in knowing exactly how or why it's harder to write stored procedures. In most cases you take your T-SQL, move the variables to parameters and wrap the...

Agree with Antares above. Get the drivers from IBM, install on your server. You can use DTS or a linked server to get the data.

One issue we've had is that...

Fishbarnriots has a good point. (what is with that nickname?)

To get close to 100%, I'd actually go through a cleaning process. See if you can wipe out stuff before the...

Why shorten the column? It's varchar, so no savings in space if everything is under 20.

There's no way to do this. The SQL login is not related to the Windows login. You could add the Windows login and map it to the database user, but...

Can you give an example of what you mean by the identity ranges not matching? It's not clear from your first post.

Hans,

that makes some sense, but a recordset or a table is a fixed width item. So if some rows have 3 column values and some have 5, it doesn't...

Really you need some third party system or a script as mentioned above. You should have somehting like this to check for other services, not starting, etc.

http://www.serversalive.com/salive/index.asp is reasonable. What's...