Well from my days with Dell, the company line was to turn off write caching to the possiblility of loosing info. Also tuning the caching is a real pain. I...

I run SS2k oracle 8i and MySQL all on the same test box. I just don't do performance testing on the box. Other than that they all play fair with...

I'd love to. I'm the king of cheap or free tools to do SQL work with. I also write lots of little tools to help out our day to day...

do a search on xp_sendmail on MS site or in technet there is a known issue with dropped attachments. I went through that as well.

Wes

on the DDS3 tape drives the hardware compression is set by a jumper on the back of the tape drive it's self. I would clean that unit ALOT! every 4...

http://www.asp101.com http://www.15seconds.com are both good places to start for asp and db pulldown navigation.

this does sound like the problem I currently have as well. We rolled the latest hot-fix for windows 2000 onto the server and I could send sql mail but no...

I do something like this too... I shell out and do a dir /b /o-d and dump the results into a table so I can look at them. It allows...

There is a banneradrotator built into the asp object set. I would read wrox book on beginning asp and asp databases to get a good start on what you are...

I've got all my statements in store procs unless the app is built for multi database systems.

Wes

sqlst = select top 20 * from tbl_name order by tbl_object

objRec.Open sqlst, conn, adOpenStatic, adLockReadOnly, adCmdText

This is the way to do it with a sql statement. It will pull...

I would love to post some of the scripts I use in my day to day admin or some of the asp stuff I've done for our internal site including...

I'm mostly worried about restores from disk. We keep at least a days worth of backups on the local disk. Our main backbone is gig and we have a deticated...

If your app doesn't trap the disconnect then your app WILL blow up :). You must check for a connection before you send data if there is no connection try...

Is this a single huge bulk insert with bulk logging turned on?