I saw John Carter (did that come out in 2012?). It was OK, but not great.

I definitely think that Skyfall should have been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. Sorry...

Very timely discussion, Steve. Last year, for the first time that I'm aware of, we wrote up some DR plans, with respect to our database. (It's appalling to think we...

Ian Massi (12/28/2012)

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My goal is to get my coworker trained up to handle more of the admin stuff on SQL Server. He's already a great developer on the platform...

I've never heard of infinite games. What an interesting idea.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/29/2012)

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Custom encryption should use industry standard algorithms. You can search for blowfish, AES, etc. or use the implementations that are build into Windows. As Miles...

Miles Neale (11/29/2012)

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I have no IPod, do not kick the old or take candy from babies, but I do encrypt data. Not all data but that in the sensitive...

Good admonition, Steve. I'm one who tends to give too much detail to managers. I do this for a variety of reasons, like thinking that I've got to prove to...

I should add, this does work with AD 2003, correct? Our servers are kind of old; we're running 2003 R2 AD.

Thank you, Lowell, I've got to explore this. I've never worked with linked servers before, but I think this is worth checking out.

Thank you very much, Gail and Steve. That's what I thought, but I figured it didn't hurt to double check.

Well, Paul, that was it. I had only downloaded and installed Management Studio Express. Man, I feel so stupid. I'm sorry everyone, my bad.

Good question, Paul. I think I may have gotten the wrong download. I just checked and the name of the download is SQLManagementStudio_x86_ENU.exe, and it's about 156MB in...

I've run the installer again. It gets to the Feature Selection page, and there I'm stopped.

As you can (I hope) see, the features are all selected, and disabled. ...

Great, then I must have missed it. OK, so how do I now add a named instance?

WOW, lots of great feedback here, thank you everyone!