The free edition of Sharepoint called Foundation is crap for BI, you need the enterprise version:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh231680.aspx#bkmk_vers

Powerview is the way to go, self service BI but unfortunately requires the licenced edition....

It could be something to do with declaring the VB variable "dt" as a string and not a date, causing a bad conversion of the dt string to a datetime...

Are you upgrading the SQL database engine/instance or just SQL Management Studio (the client tools)?

If you are upgrading the instance, you can perform an edition upgrade via the install media...

The app is probably specifying a port number (eg. 1434 is the default DAC port) in the connection.

It's fine as long as log backups are not being taken by the maintenance plan or anything other than the log shipping job.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175480%28v=sql.105%29.aspx

Make sure that the backup retention of the...

By default, windows admins do not get access to the SQL instance. You need to specifically grant access during installation. If you used the default during installation, you...

There is a slightly better explanation of Error 18056 and why pooled connections raise those messages here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2013/02/13/breaking-down-18065.aspx

State 28 'RedoLoginSessLang' suggests that the session was attempting to change the Language...

What permissions do you have on the SQL instance and database?

Connect to the instance using SSMS and confirm you can navigate the database objects, confirm your level of...

Does it fail if you run it again at a different time?

It might be a table that is dropped / recreated frequently or during the maintenance period. ...

Are you on SQL2008R2 SP2? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2634571

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2012/02/23/a-faster-checkdb-part-ii.aspx

Try DBCC CHECKDB WITH PHYSICAL_ONLY

You need to completely uninstall the express edition - you might need to go via control panel, change installed program and uninstall that way.

Reboot.

Install SSMS from the standard edition media.

Not easily. It is the same question for a client modifying a row in SQL, how do you know what has changed?

You would need to enable Change Tracking or...

Whats in the Datawarehouse_Reporting.dbo.GeometricLinking function?

What is the datatype of IndexValue?

Does the query plan change very much after removing the order by?

The PDFs would need to be uploaded to a web server then linked, or stored in a shared folder with the correct permissions. To create the link on the...

As I understand it, Always On Availability groups required SQL2012 enterprise edition, 'Always On' Failover Clustering is supported in SQL2012 standard edition.