Hi George,

It's good to hear from you again and, of course, you have been sorely missed. I am sorry to hear of the difficulties currently besetting you and trust they will be appropriately resolved with a favorable outcome. I'll be praying for you and your family.

Bill

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>Several of you have emailed me personally about my absence from the UT recently. I want to let them know that I sincerely appreciate their concern and it is appreciated.
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>There are a number of reasons for this. I hope that you'll understand the reasons. I'm going to present them in no particular order. I don't think, however, that there's no way that some items are less important than others.
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>If there's one thing that I would name as the "most" important, it would be my wife. Her health isn't good. She isn't sick by conventional terms, but, as someone who had polio and several operations as a child, she isn't well either. When someone has an MRI on her neck, back, and finally, brain, it isn't a good sign.
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>Additionally, I've been fighting with the isurance company regarding her medical bills.
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>Next, I've been doing this for 22 years (almost 19 professionally). I must admit that I'm a bit "burned out".
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>Lastly, there's a PHB issue. Now if Michel's acronym parser doesn't handle that one, let me make a point, things may soon come to a head. If you need more help on the acronym, either email or private me.:-)
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>Last August or September, he had the "net nanny" prevent me from accessing the UT from work. I'll freely admit that I answered a lot of questions, but I also felt that the UT was of invaluable assitance in helping finding answers to questions we had. I also felt that the benefits I received as an MVP and shared with the company more than compensated for the time I spent.
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>Whassup...
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>Hopefully, I'll be releasing a "Search and Replace" tool to use with the SQL Server Enterprise manager. IMHO, this is a short coming of the Enterprise Manager.
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>Further, I hope to also release a VBScript generator for use with installations.