I had similar bad experiences with SUSE 9.2 it took forever & was as resource-intensive as Windows. And I had to BUY that one 🙁

I've tried Ubuntu Linux 6.06 and it's waaaay more stable than the Win 98 SE that it replaced on my old Sony laptop. It recognized all the hardware without having...

Steve, you said

"CEO of Mandriva fired off an open letter ... The tone of the letter was a little whiny..."

But did you consider that English may be his 2nd language?...

Microsoft Word has built-in spelling and grammar checking, so if you have access to an English-language copy of Word, why not compose your next post using Word and you can...

I happen to think that Steve's original design is quite sound. Performance considerations aside, it meets the original requirements. It is so easy to over-engineer a database to the point...

Alex Cooper (11/12/2007)

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I am trying to import Reports from MS ACCESS DB to Reporting Services.

I followed online instructions, and imported the reports and can see them in...

Steve,

Your comment "Microsoft seems content to deliver a platform and hope it gains large market share." is right on the mark, and points out what is wrong with today's Microsoft....

I just ran the utility on a 3 GB database, it took 45 minutes and created a 12 GB sql file, using a 2.8 GHz P4 with 2 GB RAM...

This is from the readme file. As you would expect, if you use any 2005-specific features you'll get burned. But I would guess that there are lots of 2005 databases...

BrekerS (11/8/2007)

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i have some problems to converting the following sql statement to ansi conform join operators.

select ma_idx, ma_kurztext_deu, kd.kd_preis, kl.kd_preis

from debitor, material, kondition kd, kondition kl

where db_idx...

Brandie, have you tried the Database Publishing Wizard that Vidhya described in that last post?

Here is my version of adding a linked server, named Test2000 and the Access file is C:\BILL\Test2000.mdb. This code works. I wonder if you're just missing the GO statement after...

Edward (11/2/2007)

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well this is the problem i know my manager explaining what improvements could be made will not impress him. As far as he is concerned he thinks everythings okay...

This has nothing to do with Vista, but a few members mentioned buying new PC's with Office 2007 preinstalled, so here are some "Interactive guides for Word, Excel and PowerPoint...

Speaking of the new Windows Explorer, you can no longer double-click in-between columns to resize the width - now you have to right-click and then click "re-size to fit" but then...