I'm hoping someone here can help me out finding a blog posting...

I *know* a couple weeks or so back, I saw a posting, I thought by Brent Ozar...

Potentially, if it's a service account, there's an SSIS package that is trying to access the offline database.
Alternatively, it could be that the login on the SQL Server for...

My first question would be, why would the process not load for a particular day?  If the load process throws an error, include the logic to send your e-mail in...

Is it a self-signed certificate, or did it come from a trusted certificate authority?  In my example above it's from my home AD CA, at work it's from a "real"...

You do need to have a certificate loaded into the server OS on the SQL Server, and then that certificate needs to be available to SQL to use.

The downside to working from home is, if the cats decide it's the season to start throwing up on the carpet, you kind of need to clean it up instead...

Possibly an alternate (although likely no faster) method would be to set up a linked server on the SQL Server to the MySQL server, create the new table in SQL...

For some reason, my second thought on the whole idea of someone coming in to a company on a "gig" position (very short-term contract, essentially,) teasing out some meaning in...

Presuming you're trying to take a backup of a database on SQL 2016 to restore to SQL 2012, no, it is not possible regardless of the compatibility setting.  All that...