Sorry if it makes it confusing. It depends upon the situation. Normally when I ask from one account I'm only interested in that situation, but am not going...

I did put it on a test box, some months ago. It's worked fine there ever since.

And this past weekend I installed it on our production database server. ...

I'm at work now. Thank you for the input, and I've now got the full database backup.

As I understand it, and believe me, I'm quite ignorant of this, SSAS can be used as a data source in Excel spreadsheets, which is what the quarterly reports use....

I guess it worked. I tried the telnet command you gave, it cleared my command window and that was all. I'm taking it to me that the lack...

I have issues with Connect as well. Although I've never used it for SQL issues, I've tried looking through it for other Microsoft software I was using, and couldn't...

dma-669038 (4/1/2011)

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Got out of bed quite determined Steve's joke will not get me today...i fell pretty bad for it last time (PASS taken over by Microsoft). Great attempt, as long...

Man, you had me going there, Steve! I am so gullible.

bphipps-931675 (3/25/2011)

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We are using the Standard Version in our office because it's all my company can afford, but it really limits my ability in Reporting Services because you can't do...

I would like to see the differentiation done by hardware, not be feature. We're a small IT shop, but not having something like database snapshot really sucks. (We're...

jay holovacs (2/23/2011)

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Rod at work (2/23/2011)

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...I've brought up the topic, in the past, of telecommuting, and it has been shot down each time. Basically it is shot down because...

This is a very timely article/topic. I've worked for the same company for many years, and have always taken public transit to get to work. Up until 2...

paul.knibbs (12/8/2010)

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I can see a potential issue here. You say users have lost data--but what if other users have updated the same database after that data loss? If you roll...

Should I apply SP3 for SQL Server 2005, before I try messing about with the maintenance plan modifications?

Thank you Gail, Lowell and Steve!