Sorry for the useless information earlier

The funny thing is I'm currently fighting with crappy vendor code right now, as well. The...

No app logs ... I've looked. I looked a year and half ago when this ball of shit got here on site. I wish I were so lucky....

I just noticed something very odd... 

I have an Audit Login event for SPID 54 (the "workhorse" process) at "2005-08-29 11:15:14.470".  This is the same SPID the workhorse had before...

Its a desktop client app.  I'm 99% sure that its VC++ 6, but I'm not sure what the data access method is (ADO, ODBC, etc...).  (Can you tell from the...

The particular app in question is more of an interface into the system.  It just displays data out of the database and allows the operators to create charges and update...

Yeah.  Under SQL Server Properties in EM, there's a processor tab where you can select which processors SQL Server will use.  Not really sure about the Agent. 

Also, I've never...

It should be on the cd for reporting services.  Pop the cd you have in your dev box and try it.  It should ask you what you want to install...

Haven't used temp tables before, so this is probably a very basic question ... What's the lifespan of the table?  Length of the current connection?  Some predefined timeout? 

you laugh when you see that scene in office space, but then it hits you that what they're saying is your reality and you almost start crying....

Nice letter.   Good points mentioned about how upper management often forgets the human factor.  We're not all widgets...

I've heard Microsoft fires the bottom performing 15% of their workforce each year.  Anyone...

Actually, nevermind.  I can take the backup and restore to another instance of SQL 2k (MSDE, actually) and run the query there.

Is there a way to have implicit transactions on automagically in QA?  (ie, its set each time you open a window)  It would seem to give you functionallity like you...

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Yes.  Data Control Language.  among other things....

DCL Data Carrier Level   

DCL Data Connection Limited   

DCL Data Control Language   

DCL Data Conversion and Loading   

DCL DEC Command Language   

DCL Declaration   ...

I didn't follow the point of today's question.  Is it saying that you can run MSDE as a production server as long as your load is very, very low?  Or...