that would be the ideal approach, however its a production system and our department are currently in Anal mode regarding adding anything new to production.

I know its not new,...

Im writing a job to gather index usage stats.

Lets say indexA has 10 scans on monday, and no scans on tuesday, wednesday or thrusday.

If i run my job once per...

there is no error. heres what happens(on my remote server)

I have a project with one script task.

I have a breakpoint right inside the main method of the script task.

I click...

ok, ive remedied this on my local machine by DelayValidation flag to True. The issue is still happening on one of my remote servers though.

i cant im afraid. the code is production code and i cant put it online. the script i gave in the initial post is a simplified version of the...

if its a cross join, wouldnt it give a combination of all the various results, and take a while ( considering the real tables in my system have millions of...

steve block (9/3/2010)

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So you can't dedicate 1-2 days a week to learn or explore something else. How about spending 1-2 hours a day? Maybe even come in early...

WayneS (8/30/2010)

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Steve Jones - Editor (8/30/2010)

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Probably a separate thread, but what's the menial workload? What do you do on a regular basis? I'd post that elsewhere, and perhaps see if...

Many times. over the past 18 months that i have felt like im stagnating ive tried to be positive...

Thanks Steve, much appreciated. If i can think of any more potential areas of study, and when i get more info, il follow up.

Steve Jones - Editor (8/29/2010)

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In terms of DR, perhaps something that examines the cost of data loss and the risk factors and maybe determines some formula for how much $$...

no, its the default instance.

think ive figured out i have to configure wsman on both my pc and the server to ensure they both can communicate. not fully sure what to do yet,...

Stefan_G (7/1/2010)

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I believe that you are inadvertently switching the input language between your desired language (UK english ?) and the standard US English.

Exactly how this is done depends on the...

i have read that article Lowell, but I completely disagree with profiler having negligable performance hit, as i have brought a prod server ( very healthy one too) too its...