My employer made the decision back in September to not go back into the office until end of July at the earliest. Interestingly, they had already been slowly working to...

Allstate made the decision months ago that we're WFH until the end of July. Because they were already moving in the direction of "all IT people should work from home...

Regarding the accidental DBA, has no one seriously running into the anti-virus scanning issue? The more he posts, the more I'm convinced one of his servers is scanning the db...

Silly question... Have you checked the anti-virus?

I've seen major issues multiple times when the anti-virus exclusion list gets changed (file types removed or folders removed) and suddenly the thing we...

Now, perhaps someone can help me. I have a database with fields, and one field has a value of "eggs, bacon, sausage", how do I get this to have...

So I've managed to unwind most of this build. Unfortunately, I was left 2 credentials created with an asymmetric key that are orphaned (not sure how I did that). They...

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Brandie Tarvin. Reason: Asymmetric really should have a K in there somewhere given how many times I keep adding it in. Sigh

For those familiar with TDE, I could use a hand over here: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/tde-drama

I did something stupid. I'm just not sure how to unwind it.

I figured it out finally. Had to grant execute permissions to that proc in master. The error was misleading.

If you want better answers to your questions, you might want to consider rephrasing your topic titles and initial posts. Reframing this situation might have gotten your answer faster and...

Soooooo… This is a weird one.

My coworker just set up a SQL Server (2019) and can't connect to it without the port number. IE, SeverName\InstanceName,1433. Oddly enough, I can connect...

First, I agree with Jeff on how cutting out the middle man can cause all sorts of legal problems and also get you (or the people handing out permissions) fired.

Second,...

Took a couple of days off to start potty training and get back online this morning to discover my employer has designated Juneteenth to be a company...

Took a couple of days off to start potty training and get back online this morning to discover my employer has designated Juneteenth to be a company holiday.

So,...

Took a couple of days off to start potty training and get back online this morning to discover my employer has designated Juneteenth to be a company holiday.

So, yay. People...

The U.S. Congress decided (wisely for once) that they wanted people to want to stay home without worrying about the bills. So they authorized an extra $600.00 per (I think)...