Couple other things to watch out for with DPM and SQL that I've run into.

First, DPM can and will break your log chain, if you're doing backups using SQL and...

But they're cheating! They're mixing up stuff from Death Star 1 (Star Wars: A New Hope) and Death Star 2 (Star Wars: Return / Revenge of the Jedi)!

DS1...

TravisDBA (1/3/2013)

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jasona.work (1/2/2013)

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Kind of hard to hit the Windows...

Kind of hard to hit the Windows logo key...

Rod at work (1/2/2013)

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How do you get a co-worker to come up to speed (at least at your own level, if not higher), when they don't want to bother making...

That's a pretty neat little gadget!

I try to remember to lock my PC every time I step away, mostly because at my employer I've got full Domain Admin privileges (and...

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...

😎

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...