But in fairness to companies/organizations root cause analysis can take a long time. How to strike a balance between getting up and running again vs. figuring out what failed...

I tend to agree. I've managed SQL Servers that ran for a year without rebooting in the past, but these days, I'd want to at least ensure we had some...

Avoid the news wherever possible, so no idea.

Before my wife took early retirement from an office furniture manufacturer and started her graphic design and web development business we furnished our home office at dealer cost with...

My wife and I are fortunate to have two spare rooms in the house to accommodate separate offices.  She does physical therapy practice management consulting while I'm a software...

I'd do what jonau1 has suggested above. Allow the user CONTROL on the schema, then grant the various rights to the user to work with objects.

I don't believe you can upgrade Express to Standard. I think you need to:

• detach dbs
• script out logins and linked servers
• install SQL standard
• attach dbs
• recreate logins

Might need to provide more information about what is not updated and what the errors are. You've sketched a very general problem that is hard to answer.

Didn't get to watch it. I ended up setting 7 fence posts:

and 900 feet of horse fence

Didn't get to watch it. I ended up setting 7 fence posts:

and 900 feet of horse fence

Lots of people do, hence Glassdoor 😉

Funny timing.

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To go back to the topic. I think i am leaving on good terms since i basically told the relevant people about my leaving WAY ahead of what...

Thanks for the note. This is based on testing from MS and evaluating the feature. The idea here is to understand the impact of sizing, not determine exactly when you...

I think the idea of motors and physical things is fair, but some of that is looking back. Any disk (ish) tech is inherently not built for long term. We...

Thanks, will add to the issue. I suspect they changed things, but didn't erase points.