A backup can run anytime. Just because you have a maintenance plan doesn't mean this is the last backup run. If someone runs an adhoc one, they break the...

Nothing's perfect and what do you mean by ssh. The remote shell? That has nothing to do with transfers, that's a way of connecting.

yes

I think you're confusing space and capacity.

RAM is a set number in the server. You can add more, but at a given time, that doesn't change. How much should...

Is the file fragmented now on disk? If so, this might help clean some of that up.

you can shrink to some xx level, you'd have to calculate that out. Remember...

Good points and I'm not sure how I'd define things. I think MS has the best support, and perhaps it's a non issue. Seems like lots of people are stilling...

Being undecided is good. At least I think so. Our legal system (should) function like that in court, I'm giving all candidates another week to do/say something that I can...

I have read through both entries and I do not believe this is plagiarism. Plagiarism ( http://www.plagiarism.org/) is copying without giving credit to the source, essentially passing off ideas as...

A spike for 4-5 minutes, while unusual, isn't necessarily a problem. You might have had a load that coincided with other loads. Were any queries running unusually long or a...

Yep, would prefer pay for service, give us more time, reasonable prices.

We don't get 10 years, we get 7, then pay for support (beyond security patches). Not that security isn't...

Guess I'm better as "Shaq Nicholson"

If you are doing single lookups, meaning if I pick X, I get these choices for X, as opposed to getting less choices for x because I selected "y" earlier,...

In the past, I've typically done a "drop table", "create table" to handle things like this. The wizard is designed for the basics. If you need this to work more...

refresh?

If the service is running (is this the same instance), it should be there. Try running a job and see if it works.

Don't think so, but perhaps there's a workaround. You could potentially have all reports run the same query to get "variables" from a table. Something like

create table ReportVars

( vartype varchar(10)

...