Me too 🙂

I'd take pretty much anywhere in continental North America. Or Australia. Before we end up with a hung parliament here and the UK goes to hell in a...

After 2 weeks of mining TLog backups and getting them back in from tape, I've finally managed to prove that the application did indeed leave an open transaction (as we...

I've seen similar things happen when password policies are enforced on service accounts and the passwords have expired or been changed. I've had this cause issues on service start-up before...

Lots of reasons. The business may not see a requirement to migrate the database, there may be elements...

As a freelancer most of the sites I work at are still extensively 2000, with a few 2005 servers. Almost all the businesses I've worked with are still only just...

Good question... Yet again, I learn something new over my morning tea 😀

We're having some major performance issues with a NetApp SAN, both with throughput on the controllers and with performance of the disks in the various aggregates.

I've been over it several...

Should have read the question better. The defining clue was in "(in dataset)".

Once you start looking into controling the timeouts in the Dataset, then you find the answer quoted in...

We had an issue at one place I worked (names withheld to protect the imbeciles) where there was a problem with some development code failing with a truncation error trying...

When I was working at CRS on Dantzic Street they were filming Cracker in the old Maxwell House building before it was turned into The Printworks. Never saw Robbie Coltrane...

If anyone can beat that building I'll be amazed. That...

leon_h (1/29/2010)

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My initial reasoning was that the first query should run and return no rows because nothing at that point should have returned a value, but the second would return...

I...

Westhoughton (that's near Bolton, which is near Manchester) UK.

And no we don't all live on cobbled streets, I don't know anyone who keeps pidgeons, I have seen a whippet but...

paul.knibbs (1/22/2010)

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Surprised to hear about your problems with the trains in Manchester--my colleague, who gets the train in from Wigan to Manchester city centre every day, was one of the...