And then only if it's a publicly traded company. I've been working for a private company for years, so I'm only aware of SOX when I hear people complaining about...

You don't have to create the shell to restore a backup to a new database. You just have to move the data files. I explained the GUI method in the...

I am such a dope sometimes.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Backup/recoverytoapointintime/1914/%5B/url%5D

It sounds like your maintenance plan is set up right. The scenario you described is not because of a database or log first or second, but because you have to...

Maybe I'm confused (hardly a new case), but however many log files you've backed up, you'll have to traverse them unitl you get to the log where the end time...

You can't really do logs first. You have to restore the database and then a series of logs and the backup has to be in the same order.

Those files are not compatible with Management Studio.

As to where... it really depends on your shop and the processes there. For example, we use Visual Studio Team System Database Edition...

Didn't I answer this one already today for you?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost562957.aspx

But the issue is the error message:

"nvarchar value "2147486776" overflowed an int column"

If you're selecting into a bigint variable from a big int column, where is the nvarchar and the...

Have you tried running the query against the base table?

Something is introducing a string in there.

And RecId is, for sure, a bigint?

Well, to get it to execute 10 times, just use this syntax:

EXEC myproc;

GO 10

As to how to gather the average of 10 executions... It depends on how you're capturing the...

Look up.

Sql Server Central...

It's possible your external IP address has changed? You shouldn't be sending people your internal IP address because it won't help them.

BTW, this is a SQL Server 2008 Forum. You...

Excellent! Looking forward to it.