jpowers (11/20/2008)

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Dream Weaver (11/19/2008)

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No one so far has mentioned that electronic voting system sold has been proven to be easily compromised on location. A handful of people posing as...

No one so far has mentioned that electronic voting system sold has been proven to be easily compromised on location. A handful of people posing as voters can compromise...

Steve, I agree with your editorial's statement that managers are probably not interested in CPU usage, database sizes, disk space remaining, etc. That information is important to DBAs but...

I am disappointed that an article that discusses how to manage database connections and file locations in SSIS, without even mentioning package configurations, can score an "average" rating on this...

I had mentioned that I side-stepped the issue due to lack of time to further pursue it.  That was by using idea #2 (hop to 32 bit instance, then to...

Thanks for this information.  Please do update as you learn more.  I ended up side-stepping this issue due to lack of time; it was not a top priority for us. ...

Thanks for the advice.  I actually am taking a different approach.  I installed the Regular Expression Transformation from http://www.sqlis.com/91.aspx.  This gives me a more general purpose tool.  Sure, I...

I perhaps wasn't clear enough in my original post.  Yes, T-SQL has an IsNumeric function (although thanks for pointing out its sometimes-odd behavior), but that's not what I'm looking for.

Is...

Unfortunately, if you're running 64-bit SQL Server on an x64 machine, linked servers can use only 64-bit drivers.

I found that Sybase and one other vendor plan to release 64-bit OLE-DB...

Clustering support is limited in Standard Edition, but I can't tell from BOL whether multiple instances are supported or not.  Did you put the second instance in a different cluster...

How?  What was the problem?

MSCS and SQL Server support only one instance per cluster group.  For each instance of SQL Server you need a separate cluster group, with its own virtual name/ip.

See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189134.aspx

"A...

Sufian--can you explain what you mean when you said that you "fixed the problem?"  What did you do, and how do you know that doing so actually fixed the problem? ...

To see what I saw in Scriptomatic, the counters have to be installed on the machine where you're running Scriptomatic.  I think the counter classes are automatically installed with SQL...

I'm still trying to learn this stuff myself.  I couldn't find them in the WMI Object Browser, but using the "Scriptomatic" tool from Microsoft's scripting center I was able to...