Is it every time? I've had this happen on occassion with some servers or workstations. Have you traced to see where the slwodown might be?

Good point. I'd forgotten about it, but unless it will emulate an x86 chipset or there's a port of Windows, not sure it counts here.

SPIM is spam through instant messaging. I've been hit a few times, mostly someone sending a sentence and a URL through.

My partner, Brian Knight, wrote a nice one called Admin 911, I'd also say that if you're interested in how and why the server works, Inside SQL Server 2000 by...

Agree with Phil. Especially the avatar

I know of people running more than 2TB. Guarentee that 2TB is not a limit. Not sure about 1TB on Std, never gotten a db on Std to that size,...

I might have separate insert procs for each table and then an overall "uspCustomerAdd" that might call a couple of these to ensure a complete customer record is being inserted....

nslookup run from a command prompt will allow you to do the reverse lookup.

Helen's suggestion sounds like what might be happening.

One other thing. It seems you are setting values in a table to "N", then the remaining values to "Y". You could do this in one statement with a CASE...

From my understanding, which may or may not be correct, SQL Server Std can only use 2GB from memory from the OS. That should be physical, but potentially if the...

Not a great full text expoert and we had some issues with it as well. We went with SQL Turbo on the site here from Surfinity. Working great and indexing...

Is it added as a resource somewhere or is it the quorum?

I agree with Clice. He's got the two best ways to accomplish this. Profiler is less invasive (monitoring only), though you could build a trigger to just insert logging informaiton...

In general in the computers I've worked at the DBA has a higher status. Not usually because of the position, but more because they tend to be more experienced and...