As soon as you upgrade to refrigerators to cool the beer, I'll take you up on that.

Actually if you're near Cambridge, let me know. I'm likely to be over there...

You cannot reset your password, but you can change it on expiration.

Not sure I'd hire anyone who chose the last option as anything other than a joke. Not sure I'd...

Roger,

Thanks for the update. Good to see the SQL team is watching and responding to the community.

I'd argue with the Patriot Act, I wouldn't trust the other side any more.

one instance, SQL Server can manage resources within itself.

multiple instances - resource contention, tempdb separation.

I wouldn't necessarily look to put a warehouse on the same instance as other databases. Typically...

Make sure you maintenance plan logs to the file system so you get more details. We can help if you don't understand them.

Very strange. Copy only backup? Was this model by any chance?

Any other data in the logs?

Diff backups run well and Mike has a great explanation.

Note that diffs grow larger each time because each diff grabs data since the last full, not since the last diff.

The backup process throws pages out as quickly as it can. It has no tolerance for delays because of the nature of the backup. It is NOT anything like a...

They all do about the same thing. Performance? They'll all be close. You might have some machines faster with one, not on others.

I work for Red Gate, but I've considered...

They all do about the same thing. Performance? They'll all be close. You might have some machines faster with one, not on others.

I work for Red Gate, but I've considered...

either something else was running or you had a conflict.

Are you backing up to new files all the time? Could have corrupted a file and that might stick the...

you can set an alert on size, but I'm not sure you can pass that to a proc. You can probably get the size in T-SQL, but if you should...

It's got to be someone with owner level permissions. I didn't think DELETE allowed this.

I'd run a trace, looking for that table or for the TRUNCATE command.

Or perhaps need regular quality control checkers?