I agree with the above. I started in 91 with the old syntax and never had issues. Outer joins were tricky, but they're still tricky.

However I swithed to ANSI syntax...

You might scan the scripts on this site for some VB Script items. The ones I've most often used are the FileSystemObject and basic server connections (recordset, connection objects).

Here are...

Normal is relative to your server. What might hang your server works great on mine.

You need to look at a bigger picture and not worry about that counter. Find out...

SQL Server is ODBC/OLEDB compliant. Your web server would communicate with SQL Server using one of these types of drivers. There are not specific ones for each applicaiton.

You cannot delete the log. It is an open file that is essential for the database to function.

A database cannot run without a log file.

Dan,

Are you accepting cookies? I use IE and Firefox and remain logged in with cookies setup. It's likely a security thing on your side and I wish I had a...

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones/20010422115754_1.asp

Part 1 deals with users.

You can use a third party (Log PI, APEXSQL Log, or something like that). Or you can run Profiler and see what happens during that hour.

IIS allows an account to be specified for anonymous users. Be sure this is a basic domain account with only the permissions needed to access only the data needed.

Timeframe is this month, though feedback from SP1 could change that.

Not sure where that thread is, but you can use it. However, if things need to move there, then what happens to developement? Does it stop? Do you lose work?...

Before you restore a diff, you need to restore a full.

You also might choose to split up the tables on different periods. Heavily hit tables might be in a script that runs every night. Less used might be scheduled every...

Correct although in keeping with minimum permissions, you would not choose the Reader role. It gives permissions to multi-server jobs and this question mentions local jobs only.

I agree with the above. The transactions/sec is not indicative of a problem. It shows the amount of work being done in that database. And your application shouldn't be competing...