April Fools! Everything is a joke today. We'll be back to normal on Monday.

If you don't have experience and you have a cert, it makes me think that you are motivated to get a job, but won't necessarily have any talent. If you...

Glad you liked it. I'll edit it tomorrow to add "April Fools" at the top, but it's a good one for today.

I will look at this later and likely clean up the points. However from my reading, the view is created. There are no indexes on it, so the only...

I also fail to see why an identity in the primary table doesn't work. In the audit table, would it not be the identity plus a datetime?

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the tools? Perhaps there is something corrupted in the installation?

I assume you are logging on as an admin, correct?

You haven't asked a question, nor explained what you are trying to do and what is happening. Reconfiguring log shipping isn't detailed enough, and "timing out" doesn't clue us in...

To follow on from the Ninja, the SQL Server database engine service account must have permissions to read/write in the new folder. Your account permissions do not matter. When you...

Have you verified that you are sysadmin at the time you run this? What does this give you?

SELECT IS_SRVROLEMEMBER('sysadmin');

from http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/04/14/sql-server-check-if-current-login-is-part-of-server-role-member/

Or this?

SELECT * FROM fn_my_permissions(NULL, 'SERVER');

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176097.aspx

With mirroring, you cannot access the Mirror. With Enterprise, you can create snapshots, but updating those requires them to be dropped and recreated. There is no "freezing" of the connections....

Snow

snowing today, as I pack to leave for Orlando. Feels funny to think about packing shorts in a bag.

Can you help me understand the requirements a little more. Are you looking for an update to your reporting server once an hour that makes the reporting server look like...

I think it's split. I know a number of people that apply CUs regularly, but it seems MS is trying to slowly get away from SPs. We have CU #13...

OK, Johan has run away with it after KU's win last night. 12 so far and likely to add at least one more.

Allen has one team and 8 points.

Mark has...

Are you sure the server is up? If you know the server, check the errorlog for the instance. At the beginning it lists where SQL Server is listening.