What I'm going to be interested in reading about, Steve, is your report about ten months from now after you've gone through a full winter in your Prius.  My wife...

They didn't have a staff DBA position before I started here two months ago and there's waaay too much stuff that I just go "Whaaaa?"

Yep!  There are a couple of alternatives.  One is to have audit tables that are identical to the table being audited, along with additional fields to track who and when...

That's one of the (MANY!) problems with the *nix community.  Rabidly anti-MS, rabidly Not Invented Here.  MySQL is a very good product and it is improving and evolving all the...

I have a Black Book on using a Mac in a Windows environment.  I'll see if it has any suggestions on IP printing.  I'll also see if I can do...

SQL Server and MS is my bread and butter, but when I replaced my Thinkpad a month ago it was with a new Core2 Duo Macbook.  I'll continue using Windows...

Happy Anniversary, Steve & Mrs.!  My wife and I are celebrating our second in less than two weeks!

Sounds like MS has a byte data type in the system and apparently you're overflowing it.  380 columns?!  Wow.  I'd hate to work with that!  I've had tables approach 100...

What was found to be causing the server problem?  I'm hoping that in over a year that it's been fixed.

Thanks, Greg!  That could definitely be the problem.  I am getting that error message in the SQL Agent log, but I'd forgotten that that log was sitting out there and...

Search around online, you should still be able to buy 2K Enterprise.  I found one price shop page that has it with 25 CALs for about $3300.  Are CALs different...

This Clause does NOT work: 
FROM (((oitems 
    INNER JOIN orders ON oitems.orderid = orders.orderID) 
    INNER JOIN customers ON orders.ouser = customers.username) 
    INNER JOIN products...

Did you run out of disk space on the volume?  You might have to truncate the log then do some DB shrinking to free up some room.

And like Steve said,...

I can't imagine that SAP doesn't have other Arab/English customers.  Perhaps you need an international version of their DLL?  And SAP should be able to modify your table structures to...

Thanks, Karl.  I used the exclamation as an escape because I was having problems getting the double apostrophes working.   I have no idea...