Nice and thanks for sharing./

Nice reference, maybe that should be in the description for the Newbies forum.

I bemoan that SSIS made semi-simple transforms much more complex. For things slightly beyond the wizards. I thought...

So hopefully you have an external time sync or SQL Server (and Windows) will be a second behind. At least I'm guessing.

And I don't want to see any patch...

sjsubscribe, good points, but I'm not sure that the lawyer analogy is the same. Lawyers bring experience in areas and they often rely on that experience to make decisions about...

Oh, and we've talked about notifications. It's a bit tricky to do this since the system on which it's based doesn't have a lot of room for changes. I would...

Active Threads used to be one way we found low-reply items. The other was a job that ran once a day and "reposted" a note to threads with no replies...

Hey, that's a great time to work. You can shovel manure two ways then 😛

Do you mean the server against which the package is being executed? Or something else?

Hey, I taught Mr. Young something. Didn't think that was likely to happen. Usually it's the other way around.

I don't recommend it, messing with master, IMHO, incurs risk that you'll...

You could potentially mess with permissions on the XP in master and limit it to a specific role.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend this and be sure you have this well...

Be sure that you have master set to grow automatically or some space in there. You might need a bit as you make changes.

The endpoint for your other server is not available. Just like you connect to SQL Server on TCP port 1433, mirroring uses a different port, the default being the one...

Management Studio doesn't automatically do anything to services. If you stopped the SQL service, it's possible the application depends on it and would stop, but running SSMS wouldn't do this.

I like IM, though I like my Trillian account. New messages don't pop up, but they highlight in the task bar, so I can notice them, but they aren't in...

As with everything, it depends.

I think it's as likely that it's thrown in there to limit the candidates as it is just an addition by HR that isn't really required....