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  • RE: The Bulb Man

    Ooh, wait! Maybe this is a team building test.

    Get 4 co-workers with cellphone or walkie-talkies and put one in each room with a bulb. Instruct them to call you when...

    May 12, 2006 at 6:57 am

    #637524

  • RE: The Bulb Man

    Let's make an assumption here: The doors are all open or have windows in them.

    Go into the first switch room, then leave. The door locks. Big deal. You go look...

    May 12, 2006 at 6:19 am

    #637511

  • RE: The Bulb Man

    Well, this isn't a good answer, but it is the first one that came to mind.

    You're in windowless room with 12 inch thick solid steel walls and the door is...

    May 12, 2006 at 6:17 am

    #637510

  • RE: Wages on the Rise

    Oh, do shut up!

    I'd love to be making that much. You are right, generalists don't get as much as specialists do.

    May 4, 2006 at 9:06 am

    #635978

  • RE: Wages on the Rise

    In my opinion the only salary survey that matters is the one where you ask your boss for a raise.

    While I understand the need for companies to "pay commensurate...

    May 2, 2006 at 5:47 am

    #635272

  • RE: Humble Beginnings

    There are a few I remember cobbling togethter.

  • I wrote one on the C-64 to generate a full 162-game schedule for a fictitious baseball team to play all the real major...

April 28, 2006 at 5:53 am

#634793

  • RE: Pick on Windows Poll

    I don't know if this is true or not but I heard that Steve Ballmer was giving an interview and the interviewer asked him why more movie graphics were done...

    March 3, 2006 at 6:06 am

    #624569

  • RE: Veritas Backup

    Yes, there should be. Look in the Veritas manual for Client Initiated Backup or Client Controlled Backup.

    If I recall correctly, you can write a script that you add to the...

    March 2, 2006 at 9:38 am

    #624367

  • RE: Analysis server version

    1.2 Identify the Current Version of Analysis Services 2000

    Before running Setup, you must identify the version of the instance of Analysis Services 2000 that you want to upgrade.

    To identify...

    March 2, 2006 at 6:32 am

    #624274

  • RE: cannot open connection to analysis server ''''servername''''

    The first step may be to verify the SQL instances running on each node. If active-passive, they should only be running on the active node.

    Easiest way to tell that...

    February 22, 2006 at 2:04 pm

    #622748

  • RE: Scheduled Job started bud nothing happens

    Is the step in the scheduled job something like:

    DTSRUN /~Zr324923rfj29f4f3...

    or more like:

    cmd.exe dtsrun.exe /~Z49412341j...

    The reason I ask is that I believe only local system administrators can run cmd.exe in a...

    February 22, 2006 at 1:52 pm

    #622744

  • RE: cannot open connection to analysis server ''''servername''''

    Well, if you don't know the port was changed then it likely wasn't. If all SQL utils connect without any additional information then you can be pretty sure it is...

    February 21, 2006 at 11:24 am

    #622401

  • RE: Windows Security

    I guess I just don't believe that Microsoft's End-of-Life process is driven by altruism at any level.

    Upgrading my system to Vista would likely cost me over $1000 in software...

    February 21, 2006 at 9:32 am

    #622352

  • RE: cannot open connection to analysis server ''''servername''''

    Is the SQL server running a named instance by any chance or is it running on a different port than 1433?

    February 21, 2006 at 9:23 am

    #622346

  • RE: Scheduled Job started bud nothing happens

    Ok, take the command in the scheduled job (it should be a DTSRun command) and try running it from the windows command line. This should give you some better...

    February 21, 2006 at 9:22 am

    #622341

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