And the quicker mistakes can be made.

Dave,

you've got a better example than me and I should have known that. I went through this with a homeowners association and we go through it with kids sports/activities all...

Some interesting thoughts, though I didn't want to focus on tickets completely.

I think capitalism works to a large degree, but it can easily become bastardized and almost put as back...

Yikes, I'd forgotten about the 16 file limit. Sorry David.

I looked through the sp_attach_db code and there are only 16 parameters. I suspect you could copy the code, create your...

You need to enter the destination server name and the appropriate credentials. The packages are saved in the msdb database, which should never be read only.

Cy, That's very strange. I'm not sure what it isn't working.

It sounds like there must be something I'm missing, but not sure what it is. If you open the backup...

Perhaps I should have used Mini-Windows, Mini-Steve

Definitely not mini-ME:w00t:

Server Core is cool. It's a good idea and a good start.

Sorry, not my question.

The answer should be 1, 2, 4, 4, 5,

Actually season ticket holders bought tickets on Sat and Sun, so they were ok.

Here it was reported a malicious attack, but some rumors have floated from various sources that their...

down the drain??!?

Gonna be fun!

DO NOT Shrink if you can avoid it. This causes indexing fragmentation.

Or if you must shrink, rebuild your indexes.

Conversely, lots of people think theory has no place in the game.

It helps.

The issue is if the error is returned by the program. You could write a batch file, include your command and then check the ERRORLEVEL environmental variable. Most programs used...

Paul's a former MS guy, so he's used to a big budget.

I used to restore once a week to test servers for active databases in development. We'd do random restores...