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  • RE: How Do You Review a Product?

    Be Professional

    Check out http://www.tomshardware.com/. These guys test computer hardware and have a knack for being "Brutally honest" without being overly harsh. They perform detailed tests under fair conditions and stick...

  • RE: Autoclose for Databases

    This option should not be available for servers but it is quite useful for desktop applications using MSDE; in fact, MSDE databases have this set as the default. There is...

  • RE: Managing Jobs Part 3

    In the article you stated "you'll have to store your code in a file and execute it as an OS task using wscript.exe" but what you really want to use...

  • RE: Who is to Blame for the SQL Slammer Virus?

    What Microsoft released prior to the Slammer crisis was little more than a "Here's a patch so you can't blame us" release. I manage over 140 SQL Servers (Not including...

  • RE: Another SQL Server Virus Hits the Internet

    Some additional comments and corrections (from experience):

    the 039 patch is not sufficient to keep a server from becoming infected and, from what I have seen, SP3 does not keep SQLSlammer...

  • RE: Recover Those Packages!

    I tried this on my installation of SQL Server 2000 (SP2 plus security patch 061) and it couldn't find the table. It turned out that the table name in the...

  • RE: One role on two databases

    SQL Server 2000 SP3 is supposed to have an option to enable cross-database ownership chains. This might help you out (in 1-2 weeks).

    Bryant E. Byrd, MCDBA

    SQL Server DBA/Systems Engineer

    Intellithought, Inc.

  • RE: The Best of SQLServerCentral.com 2002

    I find it a lot easier to remember where something is in a book on my shelf than trying to search a web site to find the article I read...

  • RE: Beware to the System Generated Constraint Name

    Another reason to name your constraints is to help debug applications. A foreign key violation message states which column(s) in the key table were violated but doesn't tell you the...

  • RE: The Case for SQL Logins - Part 1

    SQL logins are the only way to handle connections for web applications that connect directly from ASP code to the database with no intermediate components; otherwise, SQL logins have no...

  • RE: Images: Store in SQL2000 or on File Directory?

    Without a doubt, as a DBA or a developer, storing the images in the same DB as the rest of the data is the best way to handle it.

    Developer point-of-view:...

  • RE: What rules of thumb you live by when programming?

    As a developer or DBA, the most important think you can know is "where to look". You don't know everything. You can't know everything so don't try; that is what...

  • RE: Where should I save my DTS packages?

    Another advantage of the BAS file is that you can perform search and replace functions on it from your favorite text editor. This has come in handy for me when...

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