Yip definatly no way to run MS SQL on Linux. MYSQL is the way to go then.

Well - You can use SQLCMD command line utility and pipe the results to a File. ;-). Might be easier

Excel 2003 has a row limit . I suggest use Excel 2007 it has a row limit of 65536.:-D

By the sounds of it, it is might be your connection string. Do you want the Form to connect as the user or as the web service under its own...

I believe the URL u are looking for is

http://www.codeplex.com/MSFTDBProdSamples/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4004

Here you can download the relevant adventure works DB:-D - I see the links above both points to SP3:-P

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what about the databases which are backed up with compression method like litespeed, let say today backup is taken with native method and tommorrow backup is taken with litespeed, how...

Greate Script. Usually peopel would like to see percentage growth which is easily calulate using this script of yours. Providing the Db always gorwos in size thsi will work. -...