excellent! thank you! it was like the forest and the trees analogy.

any success or thoughts on the rml utility?

did you ever figure out your bulk insert problem? it sounds like something i am getting on our 2008\SP1 installation? it works on 2005 and not on the...

does this compression methodology play nicely with TDE?

Happy Birthday Steve!

enjoy your day!

thank you! a great article!

is there a forum for sqlcmd issues?

How about that you like the people that you will be working with?

IN COMPARISON TO TODAY's SCRIPT.

Kill connections is pretty good.

but if you think 'kill connections' is bad...

check out the 'database growth details" the code for today, 28-nov-2006.  it is "Spaghetti-that-the-baby-threw-up" code.

sorry...

I guess that you are using SQL server agent to schedule the job?  is it feasible to schedule a package thru the o/s system tools/scheduled tasks function?  I have not...

what does  "Hi peeps,"  mean?

Sorry, but i dont think that this is an reporting services issue.  maybe that is why nobody has responded?  why don't you try moving this question to another forum to...

What about VMS?