Agreed. I am challenged with similar issues here. If you can create roles, then make use of that as well. We have done that here and then...

If you have a particular database, or group of databases, you use regularly you can modify the properties of your shortcut in the quick launch bar (or your desktop, for...

Sometimes, I come across this issue as well.  Ask the developer if he/she has modified his/her ODBC connection.  If they modified the ODBC and are trying to connect differently, then...

I have had replication stop on me as well. To ensure that the distributor is running, I created another schedule to run every 5 minutes and enabled it....

Going back to the derived column names (column aliases)...replace ClosedTot with the actual formula as below.  I have had QA bark at me when I've used the alias rather than the...

Hmmm...gotta think about this one for a while. 

1.  Can you open the file in notepad?  If you can, I presume it will be in binary.  Can you read binary? ...

Have you tried the bulk insert without the "with"? 

BULK INSERT tempdb.dbo.TEMP_PERFMON_OUT

 FROM '<YOUR_FILE_NAME>.txt'

Sure.  With my first suggestion, you would need to modify each cell individually.  With my second thought, you could create a temp table, import the file's data into...

Another thought...have you tried to Bulk Insert your output ( presuming it was saved electronically) into a temp table, then do a select, converting the binary to char or varchar? ...

You could try to copy and paste your results into MS Excel, then convert it to decimal. 

The formula is =BIN2DEC (binary result).  You may need to go to TOOLS, AddIns...