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.

Thanks for the update.

Stupid GUI

Does the error come right away or is there a delay? I don't know about restores, but backups do not like network delays.

I think that will remove all databases.

AFAIK, there is no way to prevent all the databases from appearing. They are all stored in a table in SQL and SSMS reads...

My wife loved Inception, actually wanted to go see it again. I'm not a big Dicaprio fan, but I thought he was fantastic in Shutter Island. He's a good actor,...

Or ask everyone that submits a high level session to submit a beginner level one on the same topic.

You have to call Microsoft to get official support. If this is for your company, you want a legal answer.

However I think that any passive use (clustering, log shipping, etc.)...

Depends on what you are doing.

Red Gate (my employer) has done a lot of work and SQL Response 2 looks like

SQL Sentry has a performance tool that you can...

You should be able to query for those dbs that have not had a backup in xx time. Then attach that result set to an email.

Or run the query twice....

I'd be surprised if this happened. Log Shipping, as is, is a fairly simple solution, and works fine. It also gives you a delay on the secondary, which mirroring doesn't...

I'd agree with what is in the other thread. This doesn't work in SQL Server. There isn't a way to read/write to the database from two servers. Any software/solution that...

I like Lowell's advice. Set to single user, then remove.

Just so you know, I saw the judge / speedo on an episode of Justified (http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/justified/) recently. It was the first thing to pop into my head when someone mentioned...