What are you planning on logging? If it's a simple insert of the event, the overhead is supposed to be minimal. Keep in mind that these actions trigger events and...

Thanks for the update. All traces are in SQL Server so you can determine what is active.

you could run it through the upgrade advisor, but without seeing the script, there's no way we can guess as to what might be broken.

lots of stuff works, but if...

Great to see so many people investing in themselves and taking responsibility for their career.

Just by visiting SQLServerCentral you're doing that. Learning, reading, asking/answering questions, those are part of...

We might allow this, a low priority item, but I'll see if there's a way to do this easily in the settings.

That's not a bad idea, Richard. I'll see if there's a setting.

We've banned number of IPs/Users, but they keep trying new places.

Submit it as a bug on Connect. I'd agree with you that it should show that in the GUI.

link adjusted, apparently I'm URL challenged.

I have some old servers, well, not old, maybe 4-5 yrs old, that used to host SSC. A couple 2U DELLs, RAID, etc. However they're like 1.4GHz CPUs. I tried...

Sorry, forgot the http. It's fixed now.

that's the full URL of the host you could put in your browser address bar.

If you are very new to SQL Server and don't understand these, use SSMS to perform a backup or restore of a database. You can right click the database and...

AFAIK, there isn't a way to do this. You could print the query

Update TABLE set FIELD1 = 1;

print 'Update TABLE set FIELD1 = 1;'

Update TABLE set FIELD2 = 2;

print 'Update...

There isn't such a thing as "unrestricted" in computing. There are always limits. My guess is the dev team puts in the max number as a way to just have...

Just an FYI, since THE THREAD is so heavily visited. We've started our own ASK site at http://ask.sqlservercentral.com. Not my idea, and I'm not sure how we'll sync up points/rating...

You can run in simple mode, but you cannot recover to a point in time other than your full backups. If that's important, then you do need to be sure...