Okey doke, I think I'm with it now. They're synonymous right -- both mean an unspecified large number. 😎

What's a bazillion? Is that more than a gazillion? 🙂

Yes. 🙂

Hey Colin, its all very well saying "sack your developer(s)" but what kind of database professional is gonna quite happily send a million rows across a network no questions asked?

I...

An application could handle field length, number of decimal places, etc -- in one layer or another -- however, I wouldn't dismiss it as a database issue. Obviously data...

Correct, they are not the same thing. Having looked back at the error message from the log it is apparent that any timeout issue, in this instance, is not...

Okey doke, I see what you mean. However, I'm not aware that the same default applies to, for example, the "Connection Timeout" property of a connection string. Setting...

Hi Gail -- Could you please explain how 30 seconds is the default timeout for a .NET application. By default I assume you mean when a timeout setting isn't...

So there is hope for all of us!

Well, they're not exactly telling us we have to migrate, however, they're not going to support the current version of the application for ever. The application is provided to...

Basically the vendor intend that future versions of their application will only support a SQL Server backend. Therefore, if we wish to take advantage of new features in future...

Thanks for the response.

I could not say how many stored procedures and/or user defined functions are involved here as I have very limited access to the Sybase database.

Also, I was...

Jeff: I can only assume that you are not resident in the UK. If being stupid was in any way a prevention for getting old the population here...

Could you better define "4 months BI experience" for us? What exactly have you learnt? What is the depth of your knowledge? Are you familiar with the...

Similar to an earlier post, but how about "police intelligence" or "military intelligence".

If I was cynical I'd suspect that no managers are contributing to this thread, otherwise there would be...