jmiceli (1/5/2012)

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I do not even allow automatic application of updates to my home machine. I allow the machine to download them, but then I pick and choose what I...

Brandie Tarvin (1/5/2012)

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Ninja's_RGR'us (1/5/2012)

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I have some research, I have found a lot of items that are REAL match in the same store I bought them in in the first place....

GilaMonster (1/5/2012)

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Desperation or laziness?

Explain everything about partitioning: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1229215.aspx

Post on old thread asking how to partition an existing table: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1230706.aspx

Post on old article asking for script to partition existing table: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1230714.aspx

Anyone...

We're not going to explain in detail the steps that are needed for your very large database. You need to learn how to do it.

How? Ask specific questions on things...

TravisDBA (1/5/2012)

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Auto-Updates IMHO are generally a BAD idea and the reasons are plentiful, just google it and see all the reasons, but here are just a few to start:

Sometimes updates...

Steve Smith-307669 (1/5/2012)

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Suppose, for a second, that you have only one browser installed on your computer (pretend it's IE 9.0.0.1873). The automatic update comes, upgrades it to 9.0.0.1875, but...

Never know when they apply. When I started writing this, I was at 15, apparently now 16.

I don't use Chrome for...

Koen Verbeeck (1/4/2012)

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Allright, I missed a few weeks of the thread because my wife gave birth to a wonderful son. (and thus killing my regular sleeping pattern)

Did I miss anything...

A few references:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_cracking#Salting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table

http://tea.moertel.com/articles/2006/12/15/never-store-passwords-in-a-database

It should be 12 Monkeys - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/

And just include a password reset system. If he complains, bill him again to change the...

If you don't need to recover the password, just compare against it and reset if you don't remember it, then use a one way hash. There are the HASHBYTES function...

Updated

When you rebuilt, and resinstalled, I assume, did you "add Current User" as an administrator? That's easy to miss.

If you are changing schema often, then you don't have stable reports. Replication works well, and handles schema changes, though a high volume might be a problem. I would vote...