Those reports aren't rdls. SSMS reports use the Report Viewer control so they are rdlc files. They are stored in the file Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Reports.dll

You can use a .Net decompiler and point...

I've had problems before with bugs in prior versions of SSMS still showing up when I didn't uninstall the older version of SSMS. They've made the monthly releases of SSMS...

Just trying to update the last post date for this since this is stuck at the top of the active threads list. And I'm sick of seeing it at the...

Download the current (or a more recent) version of SSMS. You can find the downloads at this link:

Download SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

Sue

If you are always having to specify the port you may want to check to make sure UDP port 1434 is open on the firewall for the browser service.

Sue

As I understand licensing, and the manner in which we pay for it, every developer, tester, QA person, and so forth have Visual Studio licenses.

Regarding SQL and OS licenses,...

Try adding the parameter that the error tells you to try:

Install-Module SQLServer -AllowClobber

Sue

As Ken indicated, it's part of the SQLServer module. Execute Get-InstalledModule and see if the SQLServer module is installed. If not, install that module be executing Install-Module SQLServer.

Sue

Publisher or subscriber makes a difference and I'm not clear which you are referring to. But if you are testing this against a subscriber, the first thing to check would...

As long as it's for a brief period of time, Disable the replication agent jobs. Then re-enable them when you are done. And you may want to leave the cleanup...

If it's a default instance I believe it will use the default port. If you have a default instance and using a different port, you often need to create alias...

One option with Powershell is to use dbatools and the cmdlet Update-DbaInstance. You can find more information on that cmdlet in this link: Update-DbaInstance

An example of how...

Dear Sue,

Thanks for your response.

The configuration "remote proc trans = 0"  was ran on both distribution and Publisher server. However, i did not run the process as 'sa' user...

In your first post, you said you tried the solution in the link - there are two different solutions listed. One being setting remote proc trans = 0 and the...

It's safe to use. The logic is that the FILEPROPERTY function when used with SpacedUsed returns the number of pages used. A page is 8K. So if you multiply by...