I started programming before Bill Gates and co started building computers in their garages and I've used loads of languages over the years but I hate, Hate, HATE case sensitivity....

With the current financial climate I'm reluctant to change jobs. There have been too many cost cutting job losses recently especially outsourcing offshore to cut costs in the UK. I'd...

That front opening reminds me of the old three wheel Bubble cars that were front opening and didn't have reverse gear because they were so light you could pick them...

The cheapest and least hassle option (no installing) to compare the structure not the data is to script both databases with identical options to non-unicode files and use WinDiff to...

There's a far worse one from Symantec! I was updating my laptop last week after it had been repaired and the Norton Antivirus updates downloaded and then the reboot required...

One of the biggest problems with UK government IT is quite simply the old adage "Pay peanuts, get monkeys". IT staff are paid well below industry rates resulting in higher...

I've worked in various software jobs, including those where you knocked off after midnight and started again at 8 ish but now I'm a civil servant and the formalisedways are...

None of us are working alone with this forum community available.

Enjoy it, act professionally, treat all as equal and every task as a chance to learn and you'll progress and...

This job took me about ten minutes to set up the first time I did it - import from each file in a directory and move them to a "processed"...

I'm another who adds a surrogate identity primary key to my tables and indexes on the natural key. I've too often had the problems of natural key (e.g. employee number)...

Karma's analytical chemists have it right but they are professional analysts operating in a controlled laboratory environment. The breathaliser is in the hands of overworked police who have neither the...

Applicant: Do you really understand SQL Server or are you just reading questions someone else has set?

Absolutely, definitly, no question we want SP for both and regular SP for supported products.

Sounds like you're seriously missing the plot here! BIDS is designed to work on dtsx and you create in BIDS, deploy to either package store or SQL msdb. If you've...

Perhaps it's the Tools Options settings in BIDS (aka Visual Studio 2005) that make it re-draw?