Back to the topic of passwords... first of all I think the question of passwords comes down to two key areas, who are we trying to secure a login against,...

Great subject! To my mind I think the arrival of the internet, and the constant availability of information at our figure tips is simply a change. It doesn't make us...

Well I've certainly found myself in scenario one a number of times for various types of apps, not just db's. In that situation I think the best path is definitely...

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but no where in Dave's original query did he mention anything about parsing folder structures, parsing multiple strings or anything like that. He simply asked...

Think this might be more what you're looking for :

declare @origstring varchar(50)

declare @strlength int

declare @teststr varchar(5)

declare @newstring varchar (50)

set @origstring = 'C:\Documents and Settings\file.xls'

set @strlength = len(@origstring)

set @teststr = '...

Unless Bhuvnesh or anyone else has any specific guidance I would suggest this is a bit of a 'how long is a piece of string' question, in the that answer...

In that case it sounds to me like your best option would still be to re-install SQL RTM and then patch it to the previous level. Since the installation is...

Assuming the installation of SQL SP2 you managed to recover via your bare metal restore isn't working, have you thought of installing the base copy of SQL as a fresh...

Not SQL specific, but on all of our servers I long ago setup MRTG to monitor all of the standard metics (cpu, memory, disk space) plus a few specific ones...

I think part of this is due to the increasing complexity of computer systems, and the need as that happens for many of us to specialise more and more in...

Matt Miller (#4) (8/25/2010)

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Why? because it's so much harder to quantify all of the things you give up when you run with ridiculous settings like that. The fact that...

Couldn't agree more, I think the problem at times is that it's very easy to forget how little you knew x years ago, or when you first started in computing.

I'd...

In a way I think one of the critical things to remember when it comes to automating tasks is that quite often there are limitations to what you can reasonably...

I think in terms of the "I don't know enough about x" argument, I was very much on the same wavelength for a long time, even when I decided to...

I agree with David about understanding WHY something may solve a given problem, though of course there are often times when dealing with something new that it's easier said than...