Oh, and David: excellent job! Nice code, short and fairly simple, good job describing it. Well done.

We're 90ish% a 2000 shop, I set up our first two 2005...

If you wanted to live dangerously, you could implement something like this in SQL Server 2000, probably even MSDE, though I'm not sure I'd try it. Basically, at a...

Sometimes money is of little consequence, you've got to get that performance. But when we buy, we always look at bang for the buck. It's when VARs are...

skjoldtc (10/1/2008)

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... Where or how would you draw the line? Everyone has a different breaking point. If the boss asked for yet another weekend after you just spent 8 straight...

Robert Hermsen (10/1/2008)

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Wayne that is an interesting statement. Given my 6'2" hieight and a bad back i am very finiky about my seat. Have you tried a newer...

narayan_kumar (6/25/2003)

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I cannot get the columns that are defined as TEXT from inserted and deleted tables and that means I cannot log them using the triggers approach. Is there a...

Steve Jones - Editor (10/1/2008)

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Maybe I should have you write a...

Robert Hermsen (10/1/2008)

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... I really wish that people would forget about old diesel and give the new diesel a try. it is nothign liek the old. The 2008...

I had to do this with an Access database not long ago. A person was given a copy of the database to do a special study and deleted all...

I've been mostly fortunate with managers, most have had a reasonable understanding of what I do and the tech and issues that I deal with. My current boss has...

I don't know why, but I guess I've always assumed that the TPC benchmarks had been written for multiple database platforms. You're absolutely right, if all they run on...

There's an interesting disconnect in the US regarding diesel. Ford has a diesel Focus that they sell all over Europe, 60something MPG. Various Volkswagens get similar mileage, yet...

Regarding "management track", I personally don't want to be a manager of more than a small group and might not take a position where I was expected to move into...

Steve Jones - Editor (9/29/2008)

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... With the new tires we're looking to take it skiing a few times this winter, so the next update or two should have some notes...

Definitely failures on both sides: Evelyn shows to not be as good a manager as we might want, Eric is definitely not the employee that Evelyn needed. But she...