No luck Perry - stripped SP1 and I'm still getting the warning. It's a weird one...

Thanks Perry - I will try your suggestion re uninstalling SP1 and see what happens. You would think if anything, SP1 would be required as that is when a number...

Hi Lynn
What you say makes logical sense (DEV has more features than Standard) but the official Microsoft documentation says dev to standard is a valid upgrade path!

See...

You can't run it under a domain account. R security is configured under the scenes - it uses a local windows account (sets it up automatically when you install R...

Thanks Grant - good to get your views, which just confirms my own thinking. We still going to use it - it will do the job as is. Just hope...

Hi David - yes we are using CMS and EPM - all very cool. Just still feel as though little is being done with it. Hasn't really changed much from...

Yes - i am running in a windows domain (the share is running on a file server in the domain). But the SQL R account is a local account on...

Thanks for your quick response! In my post i asked whether you have to install Microsoft R Standalone - which in your article it says you do. But Microsoft do...

I've discovered why I get the error: it's because the server i was testing on wasn't configured in a windows failover cluster - doh! Once the server is a participant...

Thanks for the reference to the official documentation - it's as I feared. I have two options - either get rid of the subdomain (.sql) in our DNS so that...

Yes - that was my post on Stack Exchange which Brent responded to. Index rebuilds are a good test - or in our case we have overnight batch loads into...

I've just tested containment with windows logins and it does work. However the more i look into this the more dubious I am about using them, too many gotchas. For...

Thanks Steve

We don't currently to transaction log backups - everything is in simple recovery mode and we rely on nightly backups as our current DR solution. So I...

Really?? According to documentation it supports windows and sql logins???

Thanks - that's working nicely now! Thanks for sharing