There are two kinds of execution plans, estimated and actual. To get an estimated plan inside SQL Server Management Studio, you simply type:

EXEC myNewProc 'myparameter';

Highlight that command and within Management...

Microsoft and the Books Online are our bestest friends in the world.

No, it should work on 2012. It would have been a good idea to get the entire message and everything that it said is incompatible. But according to Microsoft, it's...

I forgot about PowerShell. You need to enable permissions to that in addition to giving them the access to the locations of the backups. I'd also enable remoting for PowerShell....

Probably not much needed at all most of the time. You do need access to the file system to look at the backup files and any other load or...

I'm back where I was. I'd break it down into three tables, one to define the owner, one to define the competency and one to relate them to each other.

I trust Perry on the structural side of things like this. If he says you literally can't do it, you probably can't. I'm pretty much in the camp of I...

Generally, because of how SQL Server stores and retrieves data, it's a good idea on most tables to have a clustered index. Because of how clustered indexes are stored, it's...

If they're low on space, yeah, I'd turn on auto grow, or maybe just go ahead and give them some head room now if you have the disk space to...

Nice job figuring it out. And thanks for posting the solution so anyone else who finds the question knows what you did to solve it.

I agree with everyone else, make sure the backups are in place. I'd probably shut down & startup using PowerShell just because I could do all the servers at once.

Nuts, duplicate question. I said the same thing at the other location.

Please don't cross post. It just confuses conversations. Most of us look at multiple forums anyway.

I wouldn't put SSDT on a production machine at all. It's a development platform. It goes on your laptop or a shared desktop or something, not on production.

There are some minor improvements to code completion in the query window if that's the kind of thing you're looking for. They've also added some typing functionality that's useful. You...

Ha! Well, yeah, I suppose I would refer to...