We had a wonderful time at the zoo, Steve. Then went to Genghis Grill afterwards. (Two other places we tried to go to were closed for the Labor Day holiday.)...

Thank you, Steve, for this excellent editorial. I'm keenly aware of the passage of time as I, too, get older. And thank you for sharing the video of Scott Hanselman...

Very good article, Steve. Where I currently work, I've seen a couple dozen databases written for home grown applications with a purpose in mind. And unfortunately, we never really consult...

@Ant-Green, I really appreciate your providing that screen snapshot! I had thought what I needed to do was enable TCP/IP in the SQL Native Client 11.0 Configuration (for both 64...

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Doctor Who 2.

Hi @Ant-Green,

Follow-up

I found this link on Tom's Hardware, which showed me a separate way of opening port 1433. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-open-firewall-ports-in-windows-10,36451.html

So, I've created a new rule in Windows Defender, to all...

Yes, TCP/IP is an enabled protocol on the SQL Server machine.

It's probably in the Windows 10 firewall & network protection that I'm being tripped up. I've opened the Private network....

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Doctor Who 2. Reason: Corrected spelling

No, I didn't. Thank you!

Does this SQL Features Explorer try to find all SQL Server instances that are on the network? Where I work, we have hundreds, perhaps thousands of SQL instances, most of...

This is one of the things that really impress me about the #SQLFamily. How SQL Server professionals and data professionals care for each other. It is an inspiration. Last week...

If you know there are better practices you should follow, then take the few extra moments to implement them. If you don't know of good practices, start compiling a...

Steve, that deleting of temp files on your desktop to fix your Spotify problem, was that just temp files related to Spotify? Or was that all temp files?

As far as I know, there is no tracking of MTTR. I could be wrong, however. I work in a large IT shop, so perhaps upper management does track this,...

I do like YAML for the most part, but I'd never considered that a truncated file might not be noticed. If you upload something manually for config, might not...

Since I am the Accidental TFS Administrator, and since I'm trying to move my organization to use the cloud for VCS instead of our out of support TFS, I've gotten...

And some of us are accidental DBAs who are terrified of something going wrong!  No MS support, and although we have support for our servers and networks, it's hands-off...

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Doctor Who 2. Reason: edited out the double quote