The link is great.  I have looked for those.

I think I know the problem.  I didn't expect there to be any data that really got lost in conversion.  We haven't...

Thanks for the response.  

I guess another just as appropriate question should have been, if the comparison si true and the differences are there becuase there is not an equivalent...

I have recently had this issue when migrating servers adn the caching was the fix.  Thanks everyone.

What does it do if you only drop the subscribers and don't touch the publications?  My understanding is that log file truncations are held up when subscribers have not received their...

Carl Federl, Thank you Thank you! 

I have never seen anyone give a way to allow logins to view the jobs they don't own UNLESS they were an SA.  Your...

Wow, I wasn't aware of the dual numbering convention.  I guess I've always lucked out and got the right patch - or have I? 

What about KB933097.  It's advertised as...

Scarriest DBA story for me was an almost story. 

Oh, I've had scary moments, like the realization that you have a corrupt purchasing database because of a raid problem and...

I changed jobs to work ~ 40 hours a week.  5 years ago I was on call 365 days a year and often got calls in addition to 45 daytime...

We never did get the MSI built.  What we did was change a security setting in AD that allowed non admins to install signed updates.  This not only solved this problem,...

I think the surprise gifts are the best.  She was thinking about you.

Where the tickets for a special occasion or just a surprise gift?

As a wife, mother, and DBA I don't want a plasma TV for my 25th wedding aniversary.  I think some gifts are just what they are, a statement of your...

2 years ago - 10 active/active clusters (some NT4 running SQL7, rest were windows 2000, sql 2000 GEO Clusters), about 120 other servers running multiple instances on some, some dev, some production...

Thank you for all the ideas. 

I considered the locking based on an index, but I just find that a little too...

What I don't understand is how a transaction isolation level will prevent inserts into tableA unless TableA is completely locked.  The best I can do on inserts is assume that inserts would...