I would be curious about the conversion in Excel.  Currently our system handles over 70 foreign languages (including right to left languages) and we export the data to a word document...

What do you mean by English data?  Do you mean the data stored in text, ntext, varchar, nvarchar, char and nchar fields? 

If you want other languages/character sets/alphabets to appear in...

I am just starting to look at PolyServe clustering solution because MSCS won't work for us either.  Anyone else used it? 

Yep, we have Veritas Backup with the SQL Agent and it also uses the Backup Accelerators and I don't trust it!  It has caused some deadlocks in some of my...

We too have upgraded many MS access db's to SQL Server.  It is a fair amount of work but it is worth it if you want to go that way. ...

Just did this yesterday for a friend here at work. 

MSDN and SQL Sample Apps with code for SQL CE

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sqlce/htm/_lce_sample_applications.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sqlce/htm/_lce_additional_embedded_visual_tools_sample__705.asp

SQL CE...

First, make sure the OS is seeing it correctly.  If you added the second processor after the OS was installed, you may need to update HAL so that it correctly...

The delay is good in my opinion.  I have played with Yukon Beta 1 and am very impressed but the "Not Yet Implemented" message box from the GUI was a...

We had problems from the first day after we turned on compression.  On large backup jobs we would often get failed jobs because the machine couldn't keep up. 

As a...

While I am not a C++ programmer (VB is in my blood since v3), I am most worried about the the .NET stuff moving down inside the DB in the...

While I am grateful for MS adding the garbage collection, I do believe it encourages sloppy or programming of a lesser quality and to be totally honest it is more...

The best explanation of this I read was in a book by Ken England "Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook".  He explained it in great details over...

We do this quite a bit and have built a bit of a foundation around it like include files with the functions to build tables and such.

Several programmers...

We too just got some new HP's with the hyperthreading for our workstations. We have seen some funny screen refreshes with Office XP and 97 and Windows XP Pro....

As I understand SQL Server's Enterprise Manger is an MMC application/snap-in. So just open up Enterprise Manager.

It is most notable when you open a table from EM....