Steve Jones - Editor (6/14/2010)

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As much as I didn't like the MMC move from Enterprise Manager, I think SSMS was a mistake. It's got too much built in, with hidden...

There's a reason why I like also having the old Query Analyzer from SS2000 still around, I just wonder how much longer it will work with future versions of SQL...

Brian, thanks much for this article! It was exactly what I needed to get a test system going to explore what the audit offered. I had been fiddling...

I had an opportunity to see Admiral Hopper give a presentation at my school MANY moons ago, sadly I was ill that day and the opportunity was lost.

My wife has...

Sorry no one replied to your error, Ranjit. It's a file not found error, basically SQL Server was shut down, the log file was deleted, and the server complained...

Ross McMicken (11/1/2009)

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I used to give blood regularly, but after living in Equatorial Africa for 3 years in the early 90's, I am ineligible. I have never had a good...

I'm definitely considering IVIG. Based on incomplete information, we thought SubQ would work well. We didn't know what the time requirement would be like, much less the pain...

Thank you all for the replies and encouragement, it's nice to know so many people in our community give blood. I haven't been sick (cross fingers) since my last...

Ah, yes! Good ol' BSE.

We had an interesting development today. My household had its fifth case of pneumonia diagnosed this year: our poodle went in to have her...

In a parallel dimension very much like this one. 🙂

I'll admit that I haven't looked at the maintenance plan capability in 2005 or 2008 because we just started using those platforms at work. I have seen them in...

I recently started working with Sun's Virtual Box software and had no problems installing Windows 7 RC. Seems to work fine, I have no benchmarks to say how it...

Well, I spoke too soon. What I needed to do was script one multi-step job, change some names in it and run the script to create a copy of...

Thank you, Greg! Exactly what I needed. I wasn't feeling well last night and wasn't up to poking around outside of SSC to find an answer.

Much appreciated.

GSquared (1/29/2009)

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Mildly off-topic warning: It's "Dr. Pournelle", and I've heard he's touchy about that. One of my all-time favorite sci-fi authors. A friend who met him at a...