Found the answer

Went through thousands of lines of logs and found certain guids were being skipped due to a previous install.

Matched the GUIDs to actual componenents by looking through another...

It is exactly the same as convicting somebody on a scientific basis like DNA profiling. The science has to be publicly available and corroborated.

It might mean more trips to the...

Being in the middle ground (i'm 31 with 10 years SQL experience) I can see both sides of the coin. In the UK (I assumes this happens in the US)...

Steve Jones - Editor (1/8/2008)

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I haven't messed with the maintenance plans much in BIDS, but you should be able to open them in SSMS, under the Management folder. There is...

Working in Liverpool?

Shudder

One of my favourite movies this year: Stardust.

De Niro's performance alone is worth the entrance fee

6 years ago a SQL consultant was brought in to my old company (1 year before I got there). Apparently his CV was good and appeared to have all the...

Japie Botma (10/19/2007)

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Did a diploma in electronics (communication) when I left school. Started my BSC Computer Science in 1982. Had to fill in punch cards and learn about...

All my research pointed to them being the same, SQL just can't get over the name difference.

This problem is excaserbated by 'part-time' DBAs in the UK blindly installing SQL Server with defualts without referring to the regional settings of the server which influence the default collation...

Oh dear.....vendor t-shirts? Really?

Those who said their wifes threw them out go home and thank them, they are doing you a huge favour. On the plus side if you managed...

not over here they aren't, not that many brits like the lack of control. Its not natural to put your foot down and nothing to happen for several seconds, suppose it...

on the origin of driving on the left, i heard it was because 90% of the population being right handed. In the days of horses and swordmanship your sword arm...

Steve,

If you found cambridge  a little stressful try london (the land that politeness forgot) or even better try rome (the land that sanity forgot)

I know at one of my old jobs was at a call centre constantly taking stock trades over the phone, their fall back was of course pen and paper. However...