Have you considered simply enforcing password policy?

I go a short step further than Timothy, and drag the window down to the extreme lower right of my screen. When I'm done with dragging, only a few...

You mention that "The processor runs at 100% whilst running the query and then drops back to usual usage". If both processors are running at 100% even when you...

My company uses xp_crypt for encrypting credit card numbers. The package has performed well for us and is not expensive. Support is by e-mail but is prompt.

Xp_crypt's performance...

The page http://www.acnc.com/04_01_01.html shows comparisons between the various RAID levels.  Searching google for RAID will turn up more explanations if you're interested.

To address your question, RAID 5 is fast for...

We are using xp_crypt to encrypt certain fields in our database.  If you use this product and you want to "encrypt a particular table", you would do that by encrypting...

A close reading of SQL Server Books Online strongly implies that MONEY and SMALLMONEY are stored as "bigint" and "int" datatypes with an implied decimal point. This means that...

I also agree with viacoboni.

Removing the locking hint completely without also putting "where InventoryCount > 0" in the update statement will "fix the problem" but create another, more...

It may be possible for you to reduce your backup time significantly from 5 hours by changing hardware configuration.

For example, we have a 10.5 gb backup running from a 3-year...

Thank you. I stand corrected.

So here is the deal. EM parses the sql expression and strips out UNNEEDED parentheses, while leaving needed parens in place. For example,...

Steve, it's funny that your version keeps parens some of the time, 'cause mine doesn't. I wonder if I'm missing something.

You're right about the precedence giving the correct result...

Good idea Jody, but it doesn't help.