If you have it working, I'd go with the copy and then read. Especially if it's out of your control to change the process.

Alternatively, could you just read the data...

Note that the SQL files should still be consistent after a restart, but it might take some time for them to come online, for the reasons Gail outlined.

Lynn Pettis (8/11/2011)

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Forever it won't dominate your destiny. Life there is after the dark side.

I was going to wait until tomorrow night, but it is close enough.

I am resigning...

I would agree with Elliot. You are potentially asking for trouble here. How can you know what you're read, or more importantly, if anything's changed?

I'd make a copy, if only...

Brandie Tarvin (8/11/2011)

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I'm published again! "Tales We'll Tell Tomorrow" is the final chapter in the Shadowrun Street Legends sourcebook. It's a novelette this time and my editor loved my fight...

calvo (8/11/2011)

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I don't usually buy food at ballparks. On a hot day, I'll get a slushy. Maaaaybe fries if I got some money burnin' a hole in my pocket. It's...

Congrats! I've love to be there, but I'm committed elsewhere that weekend. Maybe next time.

My current commute to start work is about the 10sec or so it takes to lean over in bed, grab the iPhone, and start checking email. Usually I do that...

Not in Denali. There's a "futures" list on this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189822.aspx

No, I assume they look at ANSI standards and anticipate where the language might evolve.

It's not planned, they are guessing that certain words might be used later. There are always...

They're not getting...

Anticipated it will become part of the language at some point.

Robert Davis, head of the SQL Server MCM program, says it's a keyword, just not reserved.

2K8 is turns blue, but works fine. Not sure why. "Batch" isn't blue.

My guess is it's a mistake in the config for SSMS. I'll ask around.

tbailey 19088 (8/11/2011)

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Steve,

You ask if a copy of the database encryption key is needed to restore a backup and then you answer that a copy of the server certificate...