I like Brandie's idea. Make them show you some skills. Grab a laptop, a VM, break some stuff, and walk through fixes with them.

Please do. I might try to hit the afternoon game in Aug before you come.

Sorry for the delay. AFAIK, this isn't available in this forum software. I'm also hesitant to touch it as we have issues with patches bugs from the vendor already.

We have...

Your test post went through fine. Not sure what broke, but it should be working.

You'll have to provide more information about what the error is and what the job is doing. If anyone, including the connection doing the restore, is connected, it won't work....

I have worked in large and small companies. The people that want to protect their turf are there, but they're not in every place. Not all large companies are like...

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She has four officers (possibly a fifth, a LtC) working with her. Over the next six to nine months, they will be...

No errors in the jobs? Is it that they just don't run?

Is it all jobs? Can you schedule a job from the passive node and will it run?

Is the Agent...

I've been hit twice over the years. Once about a decade ago with something that one of my kids clicked on and get my desktop infected.

Recently I was running for...

Guess I'm going to have to talk to my fellow candidate. Jack, lots of people won't know what NomCom means.

The NomCom is the PASS Nominating Committee. Both Jack and I...

Maybe we should offer that guarantee here at SQLServerCentral 😀

My takeaway here is that there are ways around any security you think of. If you expect admins to use low-privileged accounts most of the time, but use high privileged...

It's not wasted space. You cannot run a Windows installation with 0% free space. Try it and you'll see. Things don't work. The same applies to SQL Server. There needs...

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

It does seem that there are lots of holes out there that are just let go by companies/people without thinking about the wider issues. Hopefully someone...

Thanks, and right back at you.