Andy, this has been a fun, though-provoking topic, thanks!

Even today, what I like most about my job is working with people, especially teaching them how to solve problems. I'm...

TravisDBA (10/7/2010)

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I disagree Jessica, the world just doesn't work that way. Ideally, it should, but it just doesn't, and as long as human nature is in the equation in the...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/5/2010)

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Dizzy Desi (10/5/2010)

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By participating in events such as this, I feel that women are fueling their own lack of self confidence issues - and because...

While I agree that women and men are different in many ways, I think they both possess the same abilities to learn and perform.

However, I have to mention that having...

jberg-604007 (8/20/2010)

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If by career you mean moving up in the management ranks at a single company, that went out with the depression-era generation. If by career you mean continuous...

There are a couple of cliches that really fit this topic.

1. "The more things change, the more they stay the same" - My company is always trying to stay...

HowardW (8/5/2010)

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Depending on how often you perform updates to Filestream objects, you should bear in mind that all FILESTREAM objects that have been updated since the last full backup will...

Thank you both for your replies. I was not sure if a differential backup was considered the same thing as a partial backup. I am not able to...

I don't think the burden should fall to the IT professional to constantly be concerned about what tasks they are doing now are going to possibly be outsourced by the...

Though none of us wants to see our jobs get outsourced, I'd like to make a couple of points.

First - outsourcing does not necessarily mean that you'll lose your job....

I would like to be able to do this as well - put the Filestream data on another server. Any updates to know if this is possible or not?...

I'm sorry that I don't have an answer to your question, but I noticed that on your post it sounds like you created a FILESTREAM that points to a location...

A coworker friend helped me search on this, and finally found the answer, explained here:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlintegrationservices/thread/0ebecd1a-3928-4c61-9e6f-c91f1c64b88c

It turns out this is an issue with the 64-bit Oracle client. A simple change...

Thanks for your response. I forgot to mention a couple of details in my original post - our company has 5000+ employees, so maintaining lists for individual users to...

Please allow me to clarify my original posting.

In SQL Server 2005, I have a linked server set up to access information from an Oracle database. There is no DSN...