Thank you! 

On the log table though?  I know the log just shows starting and stopping of the service... does it generate start and stop messages for every...

Yea, I had thought I could use a credential for what I wanted but yea it isn't going to work as I'm trying to do it backwards instead of how...

Right yea I'm using 'OraOLEDB.Oracle'.  So that is not an ODBC connection.

Ok thanks that's what I thought.  Blah, sucks. 🙂   And Ugh about SQL 2014... I had a plan to upgrade to 2014... 

We are using Amazon, so yea...

Thanks Sue, I have edited my reply to be a bit more generic and non specific and try to deflect to what it is exactly they need and perhaps we...

Yes, its just a random user complaining not the developers or the designers or anything.  Yes, we just want to shut him up and move on.  Yes there is a...

This is all I put in my "draft" so far, trying to be generic yet rebuting:

Thank you for reaching out and...

Ugh I knew this would happen... as I said, we know our DB isn't normalized and we know we need to redesign it.  I didn't want this to turn into...

By looking in history or request information....

Availability Groups... is that the new Always On stuff?

Thank you, 

So in failover clustering, both servers would "share" the same disk drives from one of the servers?

Nevermind - I figured it out.

ColdFusion views nvarchar(max) as a CLOB and our developers just needed to check a box in the data source configuration to accept CLOB...

Thom A (10/5/2016)

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To display reports on a front end page for external users you want the Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms Assembly in your web project.

This is something I did with our Web Team...

Sue_H (10/5/2016)

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That would be incorrect. It's not an intranet only control.

What's the point of reporting...