, I wish. Actually it would be for more tools.

Another wasted call to the store this weekend, but I'll head up there today in...

Good point. However Microsoft has great service, some of the best I've seen in 15 years in the industry. They and Cisco deliver.

The XBOX shortage is to be expected a...

Is the file set to autogrow? Lots of people set this and allow the server to grow. Whether you do it manually or let the server do it, performance will...

I believe this is dependent on the client's date formats. Are you set to US dates? It fails on my machine.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162212.aspx

Greg,

Tend to agree with most of your points, but I don't think this is for the audience. I think it's for the guitarist that saves time and doesn't pause his...

Call PSS to debug the problem. It's worth the $$ for a production box

Is the file (.mdf/.ldf) gone from the drive? Check that because if it's not, then you can get it back.

I'm definitely running low on retailers I like.

I don't run off upset at every little thing. In fact, I wasn't even annoyed that it took an hour and a...

A typewriter?!?!!

Ahh those fond memories of high school essays and papers. I rarely even write long hand these days, although my wife does so for letters to our kids.

It's been...

That's not in SSMS It's an add on

I used to backup some every hour, some every 15 minutes. No idea about banks, but most of these guys would have multiple levels of protection, clusters, replication, etc.

You'd be...

Well, still the same prescription here.

Thought after all this advice, I think I'll be looking for an LCD soon.

Can you not pull out the last SELECT TOP 1 and store that in a variable. Then Not sure why you have () = (). Are you looking for an...

How much mem on the server and what are the big users? Look in Task Manager