My failure answer of this question just goes to show: sometimes second guessing yourself is not a good thing. I had the right answer the first time around but...

I have decided to post this instead of the usual, "nice question" comments...

This might not be correctly on topic but I have noticed something (and most likely this is not...

+1 to the good question, it forced me to research if the symbols could be labeled as "numbers".

I am still trying to find it but I remember someone in forums...

sunk

I just like the fact that by basis of logical deduction I was able to answer correctly. Now I am off to solve "crimes"... 🙂

+1 on the nice and easy question

I took a look around the different sites that I use and most of them run into the same problem, a watermark doesn't work with charts (bar/map/whatever).

On an MSDN blog...

I run into this type of problem everywhere I have worked. Someone states "this is the way to do it" because they saw X% faster performance. As my...

Thank you for this morning's brain warm-up.

Thank you very much, I have seen the link and sheepishly admit to reading the article but, I have never gotten to the bottom where the query plan details are.

I...

:blush: umm, what should you do when you can't perform simple math in your head? This was a pretty simple question (since I have been dealing with IDENTITY_INSERT...

Gail, In the interest of learning something new, do you know of a post which describes the accepted method for posting XML query plans?

Thanks!

+1 to the excellent question comments 🙂

+1 to the need to rant on this. But my need comes from a lack of guidelines. Invariably I am drawn into a heated discussion over my need...

+1 to batgirl's comment. Thanks for the heads up.

EDIT: I wonder why my time zone was set to Western Europe? Or a better phrase might be: what possessed...