P Jones (11/18/2010)

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Thanks for summing up this week's internal battle in one paragraph!

Developers wanting sysadmin rights and I can't override it as they come under a different management chain...

Added: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Forum2838-1.aspx

There you go: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Forum2837-1.aspx

Ron,

That's how I've tended to view things. I do what I can, educate people, explain risks and recommendations with a "why" and then let management decide.

I think it helps to...

I haven't done this, but a few thoughts.

First, an SSIS package can handle multiple threads and process things in parallel, but it would have to know what files to pick...

I'm slightly confused, is the person a login in SQL Server as a part of a group, or do they have an explicit login?

Can you show a few things:

1. The backup code (or is this only in maintenance plans).

2. What is the "run as" setting in the Agent job for the maintenance plan.

3....

I agree with Craig. I think you might be misinterpreting what is happening here.

Filegroups will let you control the objects, and if you have enterprise editions, you can move tables...

I used to play in a band, but it's too much of a commitment with kids, exercise, etc. However I enjoy music and one thing that's been fun is to...

Jack Corbett (11/17/2010)

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For any chapter leaders that may not be on Twitter but are here, I started a thread on the chapter leaders forum about handling money, http://tinyurl.com/3ywxkbq. I'm...

I go away for a day as my daughter's sick and we're now throwing pies instead of pork chops? What is up with you kids?!?!?! :w00t:

I think we should have more certifications, and each of them harder with specializations in different areas. Good idea to post on Connect. If you do post, and I'd post...

As long as your SSIS instance is for disaster recovery, licensing is not an issue.

Willem, nice system, and if you'd like to write this up a little more with code, it would make a good article.

I don't think it scales well, but for a...

I'm not sure what you mean here. The English is a little confusing as you're writing it. If you can't open ports to location b, then there is no way...