Yes. I've got a table with...

Thanks, Guys. I'm going to watch this thread for a little bit more (I want to hear what Thom has to say) before digging back into this. I've been banging...

Thanks, Thom.

I could use a little bit of SSIS brainstorming assistance over here if someone wouldn't mind. This one has me kind of stumped.

FYI: I just got accepted to speak at the 2017 Grace Hopper Conference about Careers in Database Administration. I'm doing the Student Opportunity Labs section of the conference. It's in...

Sorry, John. I live in the 50 States but did not win a $10 gift card, so I'm the wrong person to ask on both counts.

On the other...

To add on to what the others are saying, all variable columns NVARCHAR and VARCHAR have an additional overhead added to the length you've give them. I believe (Lynn, correct...

The reason Gail is asking for the table definition (as in the CREATE TABLE & CREATE INDEX statements) is because we can add up the data types and lengths to...

My boss broke SQL Server Database Mirroring.

Well, actually, he's just getting errors when creating a database mirror and asked me to assist, but I really really wanted to...

Yeah. It was nice that not only was IT able to come to the same place, but we were able to convince the BU management teams that this was for...

Is this a production database or non-production? If non-production, do you have another backup with which you can test to see if the same thing happens?

This is a hard one. All the possibilities I can think of that would cause a DB restore to fail would throw different messages.

How about putting a...