Hmm, I don't know the sa pwd, but I Can check and see if it's blank. The server is at 127.0.0.1 if anyone wants to help 😉

Dropped some notes here:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Forum433-1.aspx

Very interesting question. Once again the debate has proven extremely valuable.

I think too many comments have likely moved the OP off since I think this is a mistake.

However, 800TB sounds like sleepless nights, stress, and a huge PIA of a...

I would NOT recommend this, but how can stopping the service potentially cause data corruption? The service writes all data to disk. If you restart the server before all databases...

Look at that, it does. I hadn't realized that I could get more granular there. However the docs (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175138%28v=SQL.100%29.aspx) need to update...

SSL doesn't solve everything, but it does reduce some people making attacks. That's why I mention learning more about other network protocols. Perhaps we ought to also be encrypting at...

Do we have a Sharepoint site we like?

I went back and looked at the wording in Jeff's draft. The issue there is that many of us borrow code for others and use it. That could be seen...

True, TDE is an EE feature, which I think is a mistake. Many of the other encryption technologies are in all versions.

Maybe, but the SP isn't necessarily that which CU 4 is developed against. Neither is an individual patch. They might be developed again CU3 or CU2. Otherwise it would be...

I agree with you morally, but once you start to get into policing ethics and morals, you are potentially opening yourself up to some legal actions. I can't imagine someone...

It can be 800TB, but that is huge. Are you sure you're not mistaking the size by a factor of 10?

Also, I'm curious how you are backing up the log...

Or you could start here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Stairway+Series/69801/

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