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...

Nope, the Agent doesn't do the backups, the SQL Server executable and service does. That needs the permissions.

So to test it, try something like:

--run this in one query window

BEGIN TRAN

UPDATE TableX

SET ColA = 'SomeValue'

WHERE ColA = 'SomeOtherValue'

--ROLLBACK TRAN

--run this in a second query window

BEGIN TRAN

UPDATE TableX

SET ColA...

I wouldn't say polling is bad, no. Not at all. It's one way to get things done. How you poll, where you poll, how often you poll, those are the...

Weird. Not sure why that's not coming up. Here's another one from Jonathan Kehayias[/url].

It does sound like you're confusing deadlocks with blocks. A blocking situation occurs when one process is waiting for another process to release a lock. By default in SQL Server,...

I wrote an article [/url]a while back here on SQL Server Central that covers a lot of the questions here.

You do need to monitor the amount of space taken up by the log. You should also monitor disk space in the space where the index is stored and in...

I'd double check the security for the account that's running SQL Server. The error you're getting is a security error. It doesn't sound like that account has the correct privileges.

It does depend on what we're talking about when we say functions. If you're talking in-line table functions or multi-statement table valued functions that are created within SQL Server, then...

To investigate why you're getting recompiles, I'd put extended events on the server. You can capture the recompile event and it tells you specifically why it was recompiling. You can...