I think this question could have been worded better. My answer was "incorrect" because I read the question in the context of a stored procedure, which can use OUTPUT to...

Here's a bit of trivia - Katmai was Intel's code name for the original Pentium III processor. You'd think that somebody at MS would have known that

In Access, right-click on any linked table and then click Linked Table Manager. Check-mark the bad tables and click OK. This will refresh the links. You don't need to delete and...

Are ADT's compatible with the current release of Visual Studio .NET?

A couple years ago I had done some C# programming with .NET 2003 and a SS2000 db that used UDT's...

I cannot agree with Steve's original comment about Microsoft being "transparent".

I have a Vista test PC that runs Windows Defender, which supposedly seeks out tracking cookies & other such nasties....

This sounds more like an OS-level issue, not a SQL Server issue. There are two products you could try, might shed some light on things:

Belarc Advisor http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html can show all...

Sure, they're the dominant IT company now that they've achieved their long-awaited monopoly status. But much of what comes out them is pure marketing hype. Any MS Partner can verify...

Slightly off-topic...

Still trying to turn off the Vista sync center, because it still wants to sync "SQL Server 2000" (the exe, not the databases, which I suppose might make sense,...

Just go to http://wvmitchell.blogspot.com/ and in the SEARCH BLOG box type

backup restore

and you'll see both versions explained a little better. I just woke up from my Saturday nap 😮 still...

Maybe this will help. I am using a dumpdevice named par_pos_1, instead of using the file name method, but here are my two versions:

(both versions start out like this)

June 2, 2007 at 4:51 pm