I'm hoping for something that would give me remote access. I have a server that's a little bit twitchy and likes to crash on the weekends (we're an 8-5,...

This is out of the blue, but have you used Profiler to monitor the DB and watch all activity when you try to log on? It might reveal something....

Airplane! Starring, amongst others, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul Jabar, Leslie Nielson. The first(?) of the Abrams/Zucker/Zucker (or was it Zucker/Abrams/Abrams, I never remember) who did the Police Squad...

I was confident that someone would get it, it's one of my favs!

I'm stuck with not having admin rights at the OS level yet still having to manage SQL Servers. I haven't had any problems so far that has blocked my...

I think that technically that is a valid format address: it is letters, numbers, one ampersand, a period, and a properly formed site and domain, so there's no reason why...

Are you looking to validate email at entry time, or clean up a table? This is not an ideal solution, but it shows the process. I'm sure someone...

Absolutely. I learned formal programming theory early on along with Cobol, Fortran, RPG, Basic (MS-, Turbo & Quick), Pascal, C, etc. I've never had a real problem picking...

One of my teachers from more years ago than I care to admit is now in charge of the programming curriculum at one of my old schools. She hates...

It isn't that I don't have faith in tape, it's that I don't have faith in backup agents that directly back up a database. I have had problems with...

I was fairly certain what your meaning was based on my experimentation, but your article said otherwise and I wanted to make sure.

Thanks!

Andy, I'm curious if there is a typo in your article:

"This gives you the ability to backup to two or more locations simultaneously (which is the same thing as a...

It's nuts, Claudia! I went through trying to find out what the licensing requirements were for multiple instances on 2000 and 2005. Absolutely crazy. No, it's not...

I don't know how big of a shop that you run, but I think your easiest bet would be to talk to your software supplier (such as CDW or whoever...

I have been fortunate in that my IT career has mostly been in places where it had well-functioning IT staff that didn't play the politics game, and that includes working...