Andy,

Are you asking why registry access in general is needed within SQL, or the SQL Server 2005 specific registry keys discussed in the article?

In some ways, the answer...

Personally, I understand the tradeoff of not supporting stored procs (coming from someone who loves TSQL and has been writing SPs for 20 years). Front-end code can be written...

Mark,

PM me at vince.iacoboni location db.com (replace location with the symbol that is above 2 on the keyboard ). I will include my latest script that...

Mark,

Thanks for letting me know how much time this has saved you. Its done the same for our shop. I frankly wonder how people get along without some...

Jim,

Thanks, we unfortunately don't have RS running so I didn't think of that.

Vince

We've implemented partioning on one large table and it wasn't easy. We apparently have it working now, but its taken a few iterations to get it right. We...

Herman and Luis,

Sorry guys, I'm a little busy at work and haven't been able to support the utility as I'd like to. I have an updated copy I can...

Hugo, my thoughts exactly. Let's see an example of OPENROWSET(BULK ...) that's not targetted to a text file.

Jeff,

Thanks for the feedback. We've already used the script a number of times internally, so I was puzzled with the lack of response to the article. I'm glad...

Jeff,

Thanks for the feedback. We've already used the script a number of times internally, so I was puzzled with the lack of response to the article. I'm glad...

TF,

I'm guessing you had some other connect that grabbed the only server connection when it was in single-user mode. I would suggest that for next time you should disable...

Colin,

Thanks for the feedback. If you would, I'd appreciate some detail on your concerns.

Why would the utility not be able to be used in a controlled environment?...

The silence is deafening 🙂 ....

I've sent an article to Steve Jones on a utility to move all the system databases. Once it's published (hopefully soon, right Steve?) it'll make moving all the system...

Triple ditto on the Firefox CPU utilization.

Yesterday I was logging into the VPN and brought up this site through Remote Desktop Protocol onto Firefox. It locked the machine so...