I don't know about how things go for you, but where I come from, lazy options don't generally produce good results without a considerable quantity of dumb luck, and I'm...

You don't really need the wizard to put a table control in place. While it's a handy feature, you'll likely learn more if you try to put a...

Try this, but you'll have to adapt it as I can't create any tables so I had to use table vars:

DECLARE @Inks TABLE (

InkID int NOT NULL,

InkName varchar(50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS...

Perhaps one of our differences relates to when to use the Entity, Attribute, Value approach. There's never been a scenario where that was the entire solution - it...

Fantastic! Glad you got it working. Hopefully, this process of exchanging ideas was the progenitor for the idea to disable non-critical services. I can't tell...

TroyK,

I appreciated the story, and it was definitely a good read, but going from "EAV" to anything even remotely resembling what that story described is a rather vast leap. ...

Ok, so screen real-estate is at a premium. I don't see any reason why two queries shouldn't work, as long as selecting an item gets it added to...

On the network install, I would suggest mapping a drive letter from the machine "to be installed on" to the installation source. Then go to a DOS command...

I was looking to see if they were identical to the new machine or not. Knowing they're different leads to questions about the build process for the operating system...

TroyK,

I appreciate you providing some links - unfortunately, neither one provides ANY level of detail on what's wrong with an EAV design. All I got there were statements...

Ok, so what appears to be happening is that the task is waiting for something. The $64,000 question is what! Check your power saving config and ensure...

Would you mind being a bit more specific? If my design is "EAV", and that's a problem generally, then please indicate why, and tell me what "EAV" stands...

To normalize this kind of scenario, it may be more practical to have an attribute table, where each record contains an attribute type and an attribute value. The...

You can reach me by private message here and I'll provide a phone number. I also need to know whether there are any longer-term support requirements, as well...

There are any of a number of things that could cause problems, but you haven't been terribly specific. How much RAM is in the target PC, and how...