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...

Hard to completely understand what you're going for, but it actually sounds like a many to many relationship, not one to many. In this case, I'd have TableA which is...

As much as you can, I'd try to keep any queries against the SQL database up in the Azure cloud. Any, regardless of if you write them or you use...

tcronin 95651 (6/24/2014)

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actually she is right about the indexes however it does not look the the engine uses them correctly. I had a table variable with 200 rows an...

WHOOP!

I wouldn't want to simultaneously build a cluster while upgrading a server with databases in place. Way too many things can go wrong there. I'd prefer to build a cluster...