I'm wondering, in looking at your two statements, the error message:

Then your backup code:

BACKUP LOG [MyDB] TO DISK = 'M:\Backups\DataCap\MyDB_log_20130102.bak' WITH...

Remember, the awesomeness of an episode is...

Well, unless the Mayans went by Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5 or so) the world hasn't ended...

After all, right now it's tomorrow in Australia / Japan / China...

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And now, in honor of the end of the world tomorrow, and X-Mas on Tuesday, I give you the best X-Mas song ever:

Weird Al: Christmas at Ground Zero

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(Disclaimer: I have a handful of MS certs)

I think that the whole certification thing really does boil down to a way for hiring managers to try to gain a quick...

pdanes (12/20/2012)

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Yeah, I can't wait until hackers get into car OSs and make the engines quit, shift into reverse on the freeway, floor the accelerator in the driveway, maybe even...

Always fun when you're trying to sort out something, Google it, and find out you asked about it a year ago: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1192066-1292-1.aspx

At least I had the sense to Google before...

WayneS (12/18/2012)

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jasona.work (12/17/2012)

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Ah, the week before X-Mas...

When everyone who could manage it, took the week off, and those who couldn't may as well have for all the "work" that gets...

I would expect you could just do a normal Windows shutdown. If you want to be paranoid, then shut down the SQL services first through the SQL Server Configuration...

Ah, the week before X-Mas...

When everyone who could manage it, took the week off, and those who couldn't may as well have for all the "work" that gets done...

While there's...

Really, this is going to get the same answer as many of the technical questions do.

It depends...

I would think that (within reason) a relatively unsatisfying job with great pay would...

Limbo!

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/12/2012)

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jasona.work (12/12/2012)

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Gads I *LOVE* being able to use backup compression in SQL!

Having just moved our accounting system to a new SQL server, we went from...

Gads I *LOVE* being able to use backup compression in SQL!

Having just moved our accounting system to a new SQL server, we went from SQL 2005 Std to SQL 2008...

Just gave this a try, and love it!

Did notice one quirk though.

Section 7) Last backup dates and section 8) List of SQL jobs are flip-flopped.

Section 7 claims to be the...