Hyper-V was nowhere near as difficult to set up as I had been led to believe by others and I'll continue to use it for other projects.

I need...

Let us know what happens. I sent a note to MS, but no response as of yet.

Where does the C# app get the list of people to be added to the list? If it's stored somehow in the DB and retrieved, I might actually try to...

Can I ask why you'd want two tools on the same server?

I follow what Chris H does, though two things:

1. I would restore with NORECOVERY always (or STANDBY) in case I might need some tail log or other diff/log backup.
2. I...

This is strange.

Couple things. Can you add a new user? If so, can they go into the db_owner role?

After that, can you look at sys.database_principals in the db and compare...

That's an appropriate song. Ugh, people are horrible sometimes.

That's excellent. Glad it's working. If you'd like, I'd actually love a short article on this. Maybe show how it works, with a side note about the things that didn't...

I get some amazingly creative ones from HR services, though luckily none have hit the right one we use at Redgate. I also get a few great ones that purport...

I'd like to go back to the Fringe Festival next year, so maybe this will lower the crowds 😉

I have seen a few more reports of strange bugs lately with MS than  I'd expected. In this case, I might look at a CSS case with them. I'm not...

Thanks, https coudl be an issue. I'll to see if I Can get an API key and get this to work. Someone else was asking about this recently.

As a side...

In small companies, plenty of people have privileged accounts. In large companies, this often happens when various groups/departments set up their own servers. I've found more than a few engineers...

There's clearly a memory shortage somewhere. There are lots of memory clerks in the SQL OS, so I was thinking to reduce this to be sure the max memory is...

Disclosure: I work for Redgate Software

At Redgate, we have various automation tools to help deploy database changes automatically. Other vendors to as well. There are also ways with MIcrosoft using...