There are wizards in SSMS for importing and exporting data. They create basic SSIS packages, which might help you.

The PK is the unique identifier for a row. Your data will tell you this one. It can be clustered or non-clustered, depending on how you query, though I lean...

Would I quit my job over backups? Probably not, but I'd want someone to put it in writing that I was absolved of issues because of this. And I might...

I don't think any of the data in the backup file is visible natively. SQLCompare (Red Gate) can do this, comparing with a backup file and can likely pull the...

Please watch the forums in which you post. Moved to SSRS.

No idea why this doesn't run. Are the SSRS and SSIS on the same server?

You'd still have to join in data somehow. Your joins don't necessarily have to relate to each other, meaning that you just have to qualify which rows you want from...

THanks for the note. I'll get someone to check it out.

Peter, interesting comments.

I think some of the issues aren't just that it's government, but that it's often there's not enough transparency and accountability. Not enough of the desire to really...

Interesting comments. It's funny to see how many people look at different things.

And I think it's fine to not have any absolutes. I try to have few, mostly guidelines though...

It's doable, and depending on how large the site is, it's possible that you could deploy this hour to the front page, next to the account management, next to something...

I believe they meant "conja-ma-ca-tion" :hehe:

I'd look at a trace, grab just insert/update/delete events to a table.

Then roll those up periodically to another table and delete them from the trace table.

Or buy a log reader tool (ApexSQL, Lumigent) to read through the logs to undo the deletion.

Uninstall, reinstall client tools. You have a problem with the tools.

You can setup a role that has deny permission for insert/update/delete and then add users to this along with the other roles. That should cause those SPs that change data...