Putting on my Creative Commie hat...

Currently this is quasi-legal technology. This is due to the DMCA; which makes it illegal to break copy protection; which is necessary in order...

If New Orleans had paid attention to relational rules, then they wouldn't be in the trouble they are!

Just kidding, but one can...

No urban legend, but if enough people do it it becomes fact (ahh, memes).

I've had ICE in my phone for a couple of weeks now (and ICE2, ICE3). Awesome...

This is one of those things where a company is doing something TO USEFUL, and too cool. More and more often killer apps are shut downn for legal instead...

True true; vendors "extending" standards can be nice, but it has a nasty flip side when you're trying to migrate code. I can think of quite a bit of...

Steve,

The fact that you're talking about other OS'es is great, in my opinion. If you believe in capitalism at all, then OS competition can only be considered good for...

"Data Driven Query Task" suck, if you ask me. Other than that, it's a pretty good overview of what you can do with DTS. Personally, I put business...

Whoops...not familiar with that software.

Well...good job, then.

You MUST compress the file before moving it across the network. I'm not sure how big of files WinZip will do, but this is what I use. I...

maybe someone ran "truncate table tablename". This would be a non-logged delete.

Also, triggers can be disabled; which would do the same.

cl

Way to handle things, Steve; right out in the open. Wise beyond your years. Credit should be given where credit is due, and Ken's the man. That...

If you are using SQL2K, you should definitely not use the database to parse your XML. The simple answer is to use an XML parser. You can use...

P2P and grid-computing could be the file-systems of the future, in that your actual PC is just a shard of the total data available to you (think Google's grid computing,...

Anything that runs VB; or you can compile it to run on it's own.

Personally, I used DTS (ActiveX step); that was the fastest.

cl

Nice, Steve! That's very helpful, actually; and it keeps all the formatting, too. Great way to rip a database. Once it's in SCC you can deploy like...