I figure I can just fix the hunter's computer and let him get me a cow 🙂

I think it's more like "do it for...

Some people are definitely not sure about how to research something, or unwilling to try. Or they want a quick solution without work.

I agree with Gail, no additional licensing cost. It's possible that the person is thinking of Oracle, or some other platform. Or thinking that a separate instance is needed for...

Strange, I've seen something similar, but usually gotten some type of SSPI error in the event logs. It almost sounds like some strange corruption issue, but it seems that the...

There's no other way. If permissions will allow people to add/remove columns and you cannot handle this administratively (manager talking to them), then you're stuck.

Ultimately this is a reason to...

That is strange. A couple questions

1. What's in the Event logs? (System and security)

2. Have you tried more than one account, or just the one. Could there be some computer...

The only other way that might work is with a log reader tool, but you would have to purchase them.

The default trace is what I'd suggest first.

You wouldn't want the sa password to be scripted out, even encrypted. That would allow someone the chance to move it to another instance and spend time trying to crack...

I guess my...

I've never seen that before. When you say installed, do you mean media? Or an .iso you downloaded?

On one hand it's good to have that stuff posted. Helps to weed out the people that don't bother to research anything.

Horses

Grrrr, busted out this morning and forced a chase by the inept guard (me)

Indexes are built using extents (allocations of pages ) in the db file. As the index is built, it gets new pages from the file that are not necessarily contiguous,...

Note that you would take the output of Lowell's script and execute it in SSMS as a query to alter all tables.

The idea is that you are using code to...