Thanks, Chris. Been mentioned in a few places, but good to see people noticing.

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I agree with the poster above in that we need more clarification. What does a sub-view mean? I haven't heard that term before.

Thanks for the update and reference. That's great information to have.

What do you mean "SQL Account" and where did you replace "NEtwork Service"?

This is amazing, isn't it? What still stuns me is how many people always attend SQL Injection seminars at PASS and other events still and are surprised by Injection vulnerabilities.

Thanks for the replies and comments. There are some good ones in here and glad to see people are thinking a bit about this topic. Apologies for the delay in...

Thanks, but it was all of you voting.

This was announced yesterday at the MVP summit.

One more thing to add. I've had contractors that provided a "free estimate" and then if they get the bid, they tacked on an "estimation charge" Not something I've...

1 - depends. If it is require to scope things out, I probably would. If it's something they've spec'd and given to me, no.

2 - same

It depends if there is...

You can't start a second backup. The process is *not* re-entrant. You can ask the server to start a 2nd backup, but it fails.

Even if you run to a...

those are permissions or access errors, but keep in mind that it's likely the backup will fail if there is any network issue. FTP and other transfer methods tolerate some...

check your hardware as well. Look for errors in the event log.

Are you backing up to a new file every night or the same one. Not sure why writes skyrocket....

What are the sizes of the log backups?

Depending on what the data replacement is, you might not reclaim space. I can't remember if text columns share pages or extents, but it's possible that you had 7.5k of...

I tend to agree with Brian, but how does the application work? Is it a service type application, IIS, fat client?

This determines how things work because the application can potentially...