David,

As long as that doesn't happen every hour, that would be cool.

Not sure David Reed of Microsoft Consulting, one of the new SQL Rangers. http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/

Good to hear most of you are working around 40. It's definitely worth the balance to not work 50-60 hours a week. Even for less money.

I still think most people...

The US is usually a right to work environment, but there are still lots of employee protections against random firing, and especially firing for health reasons. Typically a medical leave...

Not sure, I think so.

I think the GOOF button hooked up to a foghorn placed near the query writer's desk would be sufficient

I've done the variant thing and it was problematic for queries at times. The implicit casting in your queries sometimes causes issues when to tries to bang dates into ints.

I'd...

The setting can be altered by clients. Since it doesn't specify a client, which could be some ADO.NET app you wrote, the server default should apply.

OK, lots of responses and I can see what people are thinking. First, a little defensive answer. Writing questions is hard. Coming up with the "wrong answers" is usually the...

, yeah this is a good place to post.

It's fixed. This was a break in our security when we moved from W2K to W2k3....

A good idea. I'll pass this along. We have the breifcase, but that doesn't include threads.

Thanks, we're working to release a new site in the next few weeks that will hopefully correct some of these issues.

I wish I had a workaround for you, but I...

Very interesting comments, and it's a tough problem. I'd disagree with the first response that you don't need sensitive information to debug a query. Most of the time you don't,...

Please post this in the Reporting Services area. If you go to the main forum page, select the Reporting Services section and post there.

Al,

Sounds similar to what I did with a few more bells and whistles. We had a more manual process that worked well with tight timelines and small releases (every week).

If...