@jefferyjordan26 - my advice would be to ask that recommendation on a vdj forum not a SQL server forum. That being said, I would look at the recommended specs for...

Now that lists it as a security update but if you actually go to the download page, it is a GDR download which goes back to my previous reply.

As for...

Doing a quick google, I found this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23774596/udp-client-and-server-using-ipv6

Quick read on that (it is short) is basically that the network interfaces don't support listening on both IPv4 and IPv6 at the same...

With SQL Server 2019, Microsoft doesn't release "Security Updates".  All you get are CU's or GDR's and both of these are cumulative update which includes all previous patches.  You just...

That is crazy... How would SQL Server differentiate between SQLCMD and just some arbitrary application (.NET for example)?  Set your connection string right and it would appear identical to SQL...

Possibly a dumb question but what problem are you trying to solve?  I am just trying to figure out what use case there would be to seeing when any change...

Alternately, rather than building that yourself, get a SQL monitoring and reporting tool.  The good ones will fire off an alert when a condition is met AND provide you with...

Who were the 20 people who answered "The unmasked data from the table"???

I know I am giving a hint at the answer by ruling out one of the possible answers...

Tough question for a Friday.  At the time of this message, only 24% had it correct...

I would strongly encourage you to edit your post and take out the passwords you put in there... you should never post a password in plain text on any forum,...

When you say "brought into single user mode but no hope" what do you mean?  You got errors?

Now, like Jeff said, I am a bit curious about the licensing on...

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My opinion - his reasoning is garbage.  He should be testing the backups to ensure they are valid.   If you don't trust the backup when things are running fine, what...

So this is a problem because:

A - sa is disabled, so you cannot log in as sa.

B - local machine administrator account is not an admin

What I would suggest is...

My understanding, and a quick google confirmed what I thought, is that they are essentially the same thing.  A FULL backup is a backup of ALL data up until that...

I personally find that the wizards are hit and miss and I prefer to set things up myself where possible.  I've had the wizards say "everything is great" only to...