Thanks for the complements. I appreciate them.

If I have some experience, I think it's because I haven't found that great job that I could stay in for 20 years, despite...

Actually now that I think back it was probably 98 or so, maybe 7 years ago?

Strange. Came down from Va Beach on a business trip, never thought about the hurricane...

I think I got hit by Fran. Was that ten years ago? I was in High Point and one killed power to the downtown area overnight when the hurricane came...

Or it's , I miss that one a touch too often. Must be that second head I had added when my brain was split...

I don't think SSIS is bad, it's just complicated and not intuitive. It's really a programming tool now and less a quick and dirty tool. Not to say you can't...

Gold = RTM. The first release of the product, id# 1914 I think.

I know this was a controversial article and while I don't necessarily agree with the advice, as the editor I try not to censor people's opinions. We are giving a...

This is very interesting. I saw it the other day and didn't read it closely enough, but it does seem to make a valid point. I'm not a Constitutional scholar,...

There is a tidal experiment in Canada: http://www.bluenergy.com/technology.html

Saw this in Annapolis as well: http://collections.ic.gc.ca/western/tidal.html

The highway idea is interesting. And more, smaller turbines would make a huge difference.

In the US, there is a company working on a small 1Kw solar roof panel, hoping to...

This is a test post.

Usually if you call PSS, they have tools that can help. I've had corrupt tables and you can try to BCP out the data and then drop and rebuild the...

I try to understand the the US can be a big bully, and without out a doubt is out for their own interests, including many companies. But helping Nazi's is...

I would agree that a GUID as a clustered PK would not be best choice, but given that situation, one problem with GUIDs in performance is that they can cause...

Thanks for the comments. I have reworded the question slightly and corrected my date error, but I do think this is important to know. Lots of SQL related data is...