A. This only happens with Unicode columns because Unicode sorts/compares are based on the Windows standard which effectively ignores the hyphen character...
A. This is caused by a mis-matched set of NT networking layer files. It is usually caused by installing new network protocols from the original NT media to a machine with NT service packs already installed. Re-installing the latest/installed NT...
A. For SQL 6.5 and earlier run SQL setup and choose 'Configure Server' and then 'Network Support'. This will tell you what net-libs are installed and allows you to configure new ones...
Following a sold-out event in May 1999, XML One is returning to Santa Clara, California, November 8 through 11, 1999, for its fall conference. The expanded conference offers four tracks and 62 sessions, reflecting the latest advances in Extensible...
When I began the SQL Server backup test, I had a long list of products I wanted to include, but for various reasons, I had to drop several of them. For example, IBM's ADSM would be considered a standard in enterprise backup, but because of Tivoli...