Thank you Gail.

I will close the EBay auction right now.

as of Monday morning the question is still not fixed.

grumble.

Have you tried a windows search, looking for all files, listed by size?

Don't forget to check options so you can search for hidden and system files

Thanks Gail.

I was rapidly coming to that conclusion.

But it is nice to hear it confirmed, so I can proceed with my reading.

Thanks David,

but knowing what to search for is difficult.

Best I have so far is a list of column names that are in tables, the check each column name of views...

I got there

select cast ( cast( ColumnName as varbinary(max) ) as nvarchar(max)) from TableName

For me the question of the day is about learning and not about the acquisition of points. When I get a question wrong I look deeper into it, I learn...

I liked the question. I got it wrong and I learnt something.

Thank you.

Gift Peddie (9/23/2009)

jcrawf02 (9/23/2009)

Here in the US I have worked for a bank where you have to pay $10.00 to wear jeans on none jeans days, jeans days comes about...

$120 for 5 days work.

Phew!! looks like the US ecconomy is...

ok, I asked a couple of questions about specific events in the companys history, google news was very useful here, these were really to demonstrate that i had looked into...

Thanks for everybodys contribution.

Plenty to think about there.

I will let you know how I get on.

Thanks Ian.

That is a nice idea, but I will stick with the GUI over scripting changes to registry

(because I am a coward rather than I know better).

Welcome to the group.

Thanks for the tip, I will keep it in mind if this reoccurs

Thanks SteveB.

It looks like this could be it.