Simple Recovery model itself...

I wish that Microsoft would invest some in upgrading the SSMS database diagramming tool. Deprecating the functionality from recent versions of Visio was also an odd move, since ERD diagramming...

That's one problem with being the DBA, we're obliged to sit in on too many...

Time and again, good employees have walked away from good jobs in search of another job that will somehow make them happy. However, in many cases it's their life, not...

When you're sailing around the Carribian, searching for gold and dodging arrows, it's probably easy to lose track of which day of the week it is.

brad.pears (8/10/2016)

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Yup, I did see that... That's actually what I have been using, I modified the packages .dtsx files in notepad and did a global change to set that property...

There is a DelayValidation property at the package level. Is that what you're looking for?

S7 (8/10/2016)

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Thanks, Operational dba. The person didn't have a dba background but came from application support. I'm a senior DBA and the person was hired to help me. Doesn't report...

Two years is about how it takes me to lose the small wireless USB adaptor at which point I have to purchase a new keyboard/mouse.

A Jr. DBA is anyone other than a Sr. DBA who is a member of SYSADMIN role. :satisfied:

SQLServerCentral, of course. Also, SQL Server Magazine (sqlmag.com), MSDN, and TDWI's Business Intelligence Journal.

Back in the 1960's, Cold War agents would sit outside office buildings in a parked van and eavesdrop on conversations by using a device that could detect sound vibrations on...

You can probably edit the log files directly using Notepad.

If your job is to manage an ever expanding database containing a record of every eCommerce website mouse click or a record of every public toilet flush across a metropolitan...

Automation, continuous integration, and process are good concepts, but these things are just tools ... a means to and end. If they don't serve the intended end for a given...