Did some quick searching, when a SQL Server trial expires, the SQL Server services will no longer start.  As the time-limited trial is Enterprise Edition, you can only either activate...

Nothing really exciting planned this summer for the wife and I.  We're debating about going up north camping in August (Traverse City / Mackinac City area,) if we do we'd...

The first thing to check is, does the SQL Server service account have access to the UNC path?  Whether you do or not has no bearing on it, as when...

Sounds like a day to rant about problems...

Just migrated a customer from SQL2012 / Server 2008R2 to a new server, SQL2014 / Server 2012.  Seemed to go swimmingly...

No wonder I'm not making more money...
I'm indenting wrong:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/according-to-statistics-programming-with-spaces-instead-of-tabs-makes-you-rich/

I'd like to again say thank you to everyone who made suggestions here.
I gave the package a test run this morning, with the Execute SQL tasks wrapped in a...

Thanks again everyone.  I'm working on, after hours at home, getting a home test bed stood up so I can muck around with this without actually doing it against "real"...

I saw the article too (it's getting a lot of play on techie sites right now,) and the author did nothing incorrect.  Frankly, the blame starts with the person who...

Ugh, what a "fun" morning (for certain values of "fun")

Trying to clean up logins on an old server that's waiting on one customer before being decommissioned, whip up...