What do you need to do? Are you administering SQL or developing?

Powershell/SMO/DMO have various scripting methods.

Also http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/2896/

Indeed. I think that sometimes the choices of setting names is strange.

Don't smoke, never have, but I have to say having someone regularly grab me to come chat outside was something I enjoyed, being upwind of course.

You really need to dig through articles on the subject and then perhaps look for posts where people have had issues.

It's straightforward, but likely you also want to practice, and...

That's for an instance. It gets weird with different editions, instances, VMs, etc. And it's always changing.

Definitely call MS if you have questions.

I definitely dislike the shorthand that so many people are using, but I think it's a bit of a fact of life for newer generations.

I was slightly torqued about the...

and this is usually a client side thing to do, not a SQL calculation.

In the SQL Agent properties (not mail), do you have the same profile selected that you set up for the database server?

This is a silly question. We don't do all the research for you.

Start reading yourself and ask specific questions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb500435.aspx

Apparently the windows credentials are not getting sent through. Is this a service of some sort?

Networking, security, learn like you did SQL. Dig in, find some forums/sites/newsletters, and start learning.

Yes, you just install SQL again on the same machine. It will ask you for the instance name.

I might do it 10 times or so, just to be safe. Allow some pad in case things change.

You could probably calculate out the max in any column and use...

Not to hijack the thread onto cursors, but I use them many times for one-offs , things like Brandi that need to be done, and figuring out and testing a...