It seems DST lingers because it's supposed to save energy. There's been lots of debate on this, and the most recent information I've read is that it's likely in our...

It's actually just Turkey, TX, not Turkey City, TX (although if you search on the latter in Google Maps, it will take you to the same place). I live about 100...

This reminds me of a quote I heard. Someone on TV was interviewing a business consultant, and he said: "There's one thing worse than training an employee and having him...

I've been trying to promote Windows authentication on my new job, but it's a network with a lot of public-facing web apps, and all the public web servers are in...

Forgot to add that periodically, I think a couple of times a year, on request and for no extra charge, iDrive will send you one or more physical drives for you...

I formerly used Carbonite, but they charge separately for every new device to be backed up. So I switched to iDrive, who lets you back up any number of devices as...

Oh, OK -- I thought I saw an article or forum entry where someone said he did, but maybe either he or I misunderstood something. I...

Disable, or delete? (And create another login with same permissions for cases where you need it.)

Sarab_SQLGeek (8/8/2009)

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if we talk about SQL Server 2005, there you can set the option by opting ENFORCE PASSWORD POLICY.

by opting this you are actually applying group policy of OS to...

I agree completely with the editorial. Unfortunately I'm in a job where I wear so many hats that interruptions always seem to be about 3 (or more) deep (depending whether...

jelias 69485 (4/1/2015)

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I have a problem with the xcopy command : it asks me whether it's a file or a directory but does not actually copy the file... (Does xxx...

OK, shortly after my earlier post, I discovered the USE-inside-stored-procedure issue did indeed occur elsewhere -- in script 7. Here the solution isn't quite as simple, because EXEC sp_updatestats doesn't...

Great post, and I learned a few things -- like updating usage and statistics. Since reading this I've determined that my SQL Server 2000 DBs have many usage discrepancies, which...

All right, it's egg-on-face time. When I said I gave the new group "every permission in the book," I didn't notice that two of those "permissions" were db_denydatareader and db_denydatawriter....