We have a table with over 5 million rows ( soon to be over 20 million) that store nodes and the distance between them.

First, I'm with everyone else, calculate...

We have a programmer who has coded himself into a corner...and the only solution appears to be a CLR routine to be able to correctly hash the password so that...

As for the "Wouldn't base a business on it", I think that depends on what is meant.  Would I use an alternative to Adobe for all of my business publishing...

If your business isn't ecommerce and you have any system that cannot tolerate downtime you had better have some really good emergency procedures in place.

As for the example of the Ambulance...

If your boss and his boss don't understand then you aren't doing your job.  It is your job to make them understand enough that they can make a decision.  It...

Dale,

That's a nice solution.  You could add a column to datetime stamp the rows and have a sqlagent job clean up all old sessions later to prevent having to add...

I think there are two classes of customer in this situation:

First, the customer who, in good faith placed an order for items that included two dvd sets and used the...

I'm not dogmatic about not using cursors and will use them purely for convenience on occasion.  However, in the example in the article the outer cursor was used just to keep...