I've been reading recently that hard drive failure rates are up, especially higher-capacity units. In my home office I have six PC's with a total of eight physical drives; over...

There is a product called Belarc Advisor http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html that can read the product ID's and keys from a regular PC, so that implies that those keys are stored somewhere, hopefully in...

MS has recently been unleashing products on us that do not work as well as prior versions, in the area of their core functionality. Glancing around the various forums, compatibility...

In Vista, you can go into Control Panel ~ Windows Anytime Upgrade and purchase & install an upgraded version of Vista.

Before you open your wallet though, do some Google-ing to...

Steve, I'm glad you posted this. I read the Computerworld survey, and was "this close" to writing them about their ranking methods.

If you look at the turnover rates, many of their...

Maybe the technet article was wrong about the Vista versions supported.

Have you looked at the link that Ian posted? It does not mention Vista Home as one of the supported...

Thanks for your reply. Your method certainly works from SSMS, but I still need to run RESTORE FILELISTONLY ... to get the physical file names, if I didn't make a...

That same article also contains a link to "installing IIS7 on Vista" didn't look at it, maybe there's a clue in there.

You also need the .NET Framework 2.0, and for that...

Take a look at this & scroll down to "Operating System Requirements (32-Bit)"

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506.aspx

It states that all 32-bit versions of Vista (except for Starter Edition) do support the 32-bit version...

Thanks Steve, that was fast.

I'm trying to resume my study for the MCTS and the QOD discussion forums are very helpful in learning how to interpret questions.

Bill presented a business problem, and Peter's first post worked perfectly according to the definition of the problem. The thread could have ended there.

System design and normalization was never within...

I just realized that either example would work for up to three characters. I meant to say that the 2nd example would work with any number of characters.

I would go with your second example, since it doesn't depend on the length of the string. So if the drawings went up to ZX, ZY, ZZ, AAA, AAB it...

Although this is not Bill's original problem, a real-world example of the need for special sorting methods is with engineering drawings that can be labeled revision A, B, C, ...,...

Oops, my bad. You have to answer the question first, then you can click the link to the discussion.

Another suggestion - a link to the discussion without answering the question...