Thanks, and enjoy!

Great!  If you don't mind, I'd love an update on your work in that area; I'm sure it would be helpful to others (myself included)!  Thanks.

I originally titled it "Barcode Toolkit", but it was modified.

Thanks for the feedback.  You are correct - the TTF fonts can be used to print from most applications.  SQL Server doesn't provide much in the way of direct user...

Take a look at this article on Double Metaphone in T-SQL:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/26094/26094.html?Ad=1

The author provides a T-SQL version of the source code. In my preliminary tests, my port of...

String-manipulation intensive operations are a prime example where the CLR will most likely kick T-SQL's rear end. I'm currently in the process of running some tests on the SQL...

Thanks for the feedback!

Actually "xp_generatekey 256" returns a 256-bit key, but it is Base 64 encoded. This implementation of the AES crypto function doesn't use Base 64 encoding (as opposed...

Are you using an OTLT ("One True Lookup Table") or EAV ("Entity-Attribute-Value") "model" in your databases?

Hi glively,

Were you able to resolve this issue?  Usually this error message involves the two support files being copied to your MSSQL\BINN directory.

Thanks

Actually this code was primarily designed for demonstation purposes.  It wasn't developed to handle NVARCHAR's and NCHAR's specifically, which would have required utilizing the C++ wide character data types.

One issue with Blowfish...

There was a thread on one of the SQL newsgroups where we were discussing Google's databases and the hardware they use to run them.  Someone pointed us to a link...

'Van', 'Von', 'Di', 'De', 'La', 'Li', to name a few...

If you're talking about just proper-casing, then names beginning with O' give you a built-in hint.  Capitalize the O and capitalize the letter following the apostrophe.  If you're looking at...

If you need something more comprehensive, there's an Auxiliary Calendar Table posted on ASPFAQ at http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2519

It codes weekends, weekdays, holidays, etc. for you, and has sample SQL Queries...

It's been my experience that PhysicalDisk counters are notoriously unreliable and unusable on a SAN. The best results I've found for measuring SAN performance come from utilities put out...