Grr. Trying to verify something and can't find it with Google today (all the results are the usual "how do I restore my 2012 backup to a 2008 server")

How...

I can confirm that what you think will happen, happens.

Setting "Enforce password policy" will cause SQL to "inherit" password complexity settings from the OS (whether set there through local policy...

Gary Varga (12/1/2016)

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There are plenty of bodies but none are mandatory so none can have the powers like the bodies for the legal, medical...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/30/2016)

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jasona.work (11/30/2016)

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The problem with covering such situations, or trying to enforce "ethical" behavior by laws is, people will ALWAYS find ways to skirt those laws...

As roger.plowman pointed out, in some cases what you or I might consider an ethical violation is, in fact, not illegal. And there's the rub. Using the VW...

My suspicion is it's having a problem with the "NAME=" in your alter.

The filename (on disk) is fine.

What you need is the "logical name" of the file for the NAME=

Run...

Phil Parkin (11/23/2016)

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chuck.forbes (11/23/2016)

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The Network Team is still thinking that Automatic Windows Update was accidentally enabled on this server. Jeff, are you saying that even if that was the case,...

Looking at the MSDN page for CREATE SERVER AUDIT when you set MAX_Files, SQL does not roll over to the first file when the limit it reached, nor does it...

Looking at the MS pages for the KB, it looks like they might be flagging them as CUs now, possibly as a way to make it easier to see what...

As an example of monitoring that doesn't quite help but does, I get alerts from the SCCM install when one of my servers loses communication with SCCM. But, in...

So I'm all set to start playing with SQL on Linux over the weekend, but I first wanted to upgrade my Hyper-V server from 2012R2 to 2016. The reload...

Brandie Tarvin (11/18/2016)

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<Raises hand in air>

But teacher, if the drives are unmounted,...

You're quite welcome!

Grant Fritchey (11/18/2016)

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jasona.work (11/18/2016)

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Grant Fritchey (11/18/2016)

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jasona.work (11/18/2016)

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So someone dug in to how MS has SQL2016 working on Linux[/url], only to find that *horrors* they're using essentially a containerization type solution....

Eirikur Eiriksson (11/18/2016)

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jasona.work (11/18/2016)

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Grant Fritchey (11/18/2016)

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jasona.work (11/18/2016)

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So someone dug in to how MS has SQL2016 working on Linux[/url], only to find that *horrors* they're using essentially a containerization type solution....