Red Gate has SQL Doc( I work for them)

ApexSQL has something as well.

This will work if each user is logging onto the machine with their account. If they are sharing logins to Windows, then you need to use SQL Server accounts. Depending...

No way to limit this. Other than perhaps have a job that counts the alerts and disables the alerts after xx firings. That would be a kludge.

This is the kind...

Red Gate has a good product (I work for them), slightly different features than Litespeed, different price point.

Hyperbac is written by the guys that originally wrote Litespeed many years ago.

Use the ability of the OS Services to send a note when the service stops. You can script the mail sending from there.

One per database is correct.

I think this is available as an option. Might not be in the wizard. Did you open the maintenance plan and check if it's in there after the wizard?

Quota?

You don't need admin costs, you need savings based on GB. It's the cost of your GB per year in media, people, time, etc.

The compression rates for Litespeed/SQL Backup/Hyperbac are...

No way to tell. Could be a lot or little, depending on what the server does.

Not sure that's true. I'd be curious if there were proof somewhere.

Named pipes is an older technology, super-seeded by TCP Sockets. Not sure it's better or worse, mostly think the...

This? http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Maintenance+and+Management/62222/

Search "Job Information" here on the site and then limit by scripts.

You really want an audit table for every table you audit. Otherwise you introduce a scale issue and potential hot spot in your application.

If you don't want to change the...

I think the licensing is set at fairly standard pricing. If you have doubts about what you need, contact Microsoft. They're fairly good about answering questions and giving you fair...

Set up a job to run the package. You can even set the package to run when a value in a tab le is set to a certain number. Allow...