This morning I attempted to recreate replication on the database. Publication created fine, snapshot created fine, subscription created fine. Once the log reader attempted to start I started getting the...

Thanks, Ant. I appreciate your certainty 🙂

Anybody?

Is my scenario really that niche?

Can speak for anyone else, but this place feels like a circus sometimes.

I think I'm being silly here, I'm combining the column name with explicitly specified values, I didn't think that this was valid syntax. Surprisingly, to me anyway, it seems like...

Right you are.

Here's to you, Meet George Jetson / Chris Powell.

So I come across this thread nine years and several iterations of SSMS after the event, totally fed up with having to restart SSMS repeatedly, often losing work along the...

An oldie, but such a goodie.

This is exactly what I've been looking for, thank you.

Thanks, Steve. That's done the trick. You're right, it doesn't explain why the others are working but it will do for me.

Even stranger. This behaviour seems to be limited to my local 2014 instance, it isn't occurring on a 2016 Dev box. Must, presumably, be an environmental issue or a setting.

collinsr (3/8/2012)

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Similar to the above, I have a supplier who wants to install an app but requires the Oracle extension pack installed on the SQL server for compatibility between their...

I read Jonathan's article with interest. But I found it telling that nobody has answered the following...

When I've had things like this happen to me in the past it's usually been caused by a dialogue box that has popped up behind the main window and is...

I guess sometimes you need to dance with the Devil 🙂

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