Thanks Jasona, found the meme

That's great , allowing a full disconnect. And training for the mythical man bus as Murphy's laws favor a time when the expert is unreachable

The concept of prin is new to me, thanks for mentioning it

Well, I'm keeping the documentation in Word of markdown. A long time ago we a good wiki but that information was lost in a migration. Given the textsearch abilities of...

As the forum does funny things with url's lookup schackenberg Upgrading to SQL Server 2022: Paths, Pitfalls, and Best Practices

Assuming this happens in a non-production environment first.

I don't think the...

Installer: install the busisness intelligence

and also check out the individual components like SSIS components

Some items were added later

Thanks for sharing your experience about downgrading.

I don't think there is one. It will be safe to post in the 2022 forum's as long you mention SQL 2025.

Internet landscape changed. Not really sure if we will...

It's a regular firewall config to allow access from outside.

This forum is funny with links so search for "Configure the Windows Firewall to allow SQL Server access" an ms learn...

Also interested as my data analyst considers parquet files as datasource for the datawarehouse using python / duckdb

Happy 250th anniversary

I don't think this can be done with gpo's like only for ssms . That's more for logon triggers or the network team

It will take, but US software won't be evident anymore due the recent geopolitics. Maybe for new projects one will look to Opensource / Europe for Business Continuity

Migrating the current...

You can have different kinds of SQL Server in Azure ( forum doesn't like links anymore, you can look up the different flavors)

Azure SQL Database (SAAS): no extra sql server...

Stan, they can absolutely trash sql using another sql client like excel powerquery. If they are using SSMS/other client, you can see the application context (if they didn't modify it)...