Not your router. Azure, by default, locks down your databases. You cannot connect to them without specifically allowing identified IP addresses. So, it's youre IP address that you need...

This could be fun...

I still use a clock radio alarm to wake myself in the mornings. There's a certain satisfaction beating on the snooze button several times before actually...

Hey Grant, you're correct, I haven't opened a hole in my firewall. I'd be doing this from two separate places. Currently, I'm still working from home (thank God), so I'd...

I used to define myself by my work.  Full-on, 100% of the time.  I became known for some of the tools I created, and for some of the things...

I like that, @Wabmaster! I've downloaded your graphic and will review it.

Brian, your situation sounds like a dream come true to me. Who do you work for?

In this case it turned out to be the SQL Server's transaction log filled up the disk. That was finally discovered about 2 hours into the crisis. The DBAs handled...

Thank you, Brian, for explaining more what it is that SSIS can do. It makes more sense that it would move data from tables (or wherever, because I believe it...

Where I work SSIS is viewed as a DBA tool. Developers are never to use it, so by practice SSIS is a DBA tool.

One of my colleagues has total disdain...

Brian, I work for a state government department of over 3000 people. Its somewhere between 3000 and 3500. But organizational structure is somewhat confusing.

I don't know SSIS, but I was...

None of the members of my team, including myself, have any experience with writing SSIS packages. No knowledge as to how to do that. We don't (to my knowledge) even...

Brian and Jeffrey, this is great feedback, thank you! I didn't know that Visual Studio (VS) doesn't work well with folders in SSRS projects. I think it would be best...

Hey Michael, I had to laugh at the predicaments you've described. I'm sorry to laugh, but know it's more because I can relate, rather than anything else.

Thank you, Brian, and Jeffrey, for your great feedback. It leads me to ask would it be better to create a new SSRS project for each report? I had intended...

Yep. AdventureWorks in all it's messed up glory. Honestly, I love that sample database. Why? Because it looks like all the other messed up constructs I see everywhere else....