You didn't describe your disk configuration, which greatly affects your question about system response.

Have you looked into having a centralize subscriber with each location publishing? That way, if you only have to transmit the changes, your volume across the WAN can be...

'Disaster Recovery' is a bit vague. Depends on the level of the disaster.

However you approach this, what you will want to do is copy the full backup of...

What version are you working with? Enterprise? Standard? Compact? XE? 2005, right?

IF there were no SSMS tool available, I would suggest that you have to...

One extreme solution - create a separate database of the 8 tables they have wrapped up in this transaction, and let them run their process in isolation. Once the...

Or, if you like to be kept insanely busy, remove all the sprocs and then restore them as processes fail. You'll only be manic for the first two weeks...

At this page, http://geekzspot.blogspot.com/2007/02/oracle-earliest-possible-date.html, you find the following:

The Oracle Epoch Date (that is to say, the earliest or oldest date when the calender begins) can be found using

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Nicole,

At a philosophical level, you may not be correct. Practically speaking, you're finding NOT having these rights is a pain in the $@%^&! and slows you down. ...

A proposal or a 'how to' guide? There's a world of difference in what you need to say and how detailed you need to be. YOU need to...

Are you expecting your users to log in using Windows authentication? Are your users all within the same LAN? (I apologize - I left my MySQL books at...

Gail - a general question and a hair split. First the hair split - do you need a trailing space on the first line of your "SET

I don't pretend to know, but I have one question - is the database set to level 80 or 90? Could there be compatibility issues that the maintenance plan...

Will there even be an SP3?

Thank you for your responses! At this point in time, until the process has settled down and we've resolved how to maintain consistent passwords across the various systems, our...

Understood and agreed - from where you're sitting. Depending on how good your vendor is, they may fall somewhere between where you sit and what i quoted, and I...