Thanks, Jerry.

My assumption is that the editions used will mirror what we have, so 2000 Ent gets upgraded to 2008 Ent, and 2000 Std to 2008 Std. This simplification...

A good analogy for software development can sometimes be legal contract drafting - a contract looks a lot like source code (and often should be more like it).

Before starting, the...

I really wouldn't want this, even though we probably only have about 1000 devices. Major reasons:

1) Any fault on a user device means a full diagnosis effort; anything could be...

On a far smaller scale, this is what we also do. As our hosting is outsourced, it also saves money directly as we have fewer physical machines to pay for,...

Going back to the original question, if the original table is to be dropped, you could build a view that has the same name as the original table and does...

Two good things about certification: keeps the troops and the customers happy.

As a manager, I can offer training and certification to my team as carrots (this will be good for...

You might also want to look at this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899761.

We are in the middle of some fun with this issue. I'm just a developer, so one step removed, but...

It's a tricky one - there's a balance to be struck between privacy / freedom and convenience and law enforcement. For instance, when filling in my tax return, I have to put...

I don't have experience of all the latest tools for PDF manipulation (and this area has grown a lot in the last 5 years), but I have worked inside PDFs....

Thanks very much!

Bill.

Finally I got around to building this function and running it. Had a slight problem in that the syntax checker didn't like @level+1 as an argument, so I had to...

Best technical fiction? The official Microsoft Word 6 VBA manual. Almost every method I used had the arguments listed in the wrong order, which was fun when writing automation code...

Thanks so much for this, Tim. I'm ashamed to say I haven't found time to try it out:

• nasty deadline 
• other problems (eg SP3 bug when calling lots of udfs from a view)
• my...

You might try truncating the table instead of deleting. This could (I stress could, because I'm not 100% sure) give you a pointer as to whether the reload is running...

Sorry if this is stating the obvious, but what are you using to examine the output? If it's Excel, and the output file extension is .csv, then Excel can strip...