Dang Hugo, that sucks.
At least the Dr indicated you're likely to make a full recovery, so there's that.
(No pirate jokes)

Just was looking in the topic on using Numeric as a Primary Key...

I know I'm probably going to annoy Jeff on this, but can we put Jeff Moden...

So, which "Hacker Archetype" are you?
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7478#more-7478

Rather interesting idea, and frankly I think they can also apply to the non-coder type people in IT as well.
Myself,...

My unwind activities seem to mirror several peoples...

PC games (Some FPS, some RTS, starting to get hooked on iRacing)
Weekends I'll sometimes go out to the gun range

You should be able to backup the certificate that was used to encrypt the databases (which should be stored in the master DB,) using a password of your choice, then...

So, came across this article today...
Looks like someone has had a RGE
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/05/scottrade_vendor_exposed_20000_customer_accounts/
https://about.scottrade.com/news/releases/2017/statement-on-cloud-data-set.html 

I'm presuming you mean a SQL Login when you say "A SQL authenticated user..."  That being the case, it's immaterial, the OS is denying access to where you're trying to...

I'd say the "general" rule is, have enough space for your data files and log files with some room to grow.
Making up some numbers, lets say your database is...

My first suggestion would be to check the "Name" column.  In my case, when the backups are run by the 3rd party backup tool we use (SQL backups, not VM...

One thing I've picked up about running VMs is, you can't trust the RAM utilization reported by the guest OS (the VM.)  It will *always* claim to be seeing the...

I just got sucker... convinced to give iRacing a try by some co-workers.  They announced on Saturday a new vehicle being added to the sim, the Porsche 133:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr1bLVBkPxo
Now,...