That's what we do. They really encourage you to take holiday and while you can sell xx back, you can't carry more than xx. The push is to take time...

Personally, I think you ought to be able to sell some time back, but they ought to have to give you, or make you take, a percentage of time off....

If anyone wants to nominate Redgate, you can do so for the Reader's Choice Awards: http://www.dbta.com/ReadersChoice/2019/

If you read the BPE section, it requires a restart if the size is smaller than currently. If larger, it doesn't require a restart.

If there is an attack, especially an insider attack, you want an air gap between some of your backups. While it's nice to have immediate access, I would also be...

This one is similar to others. Easy if you read a bit about this before

I would agree with you, Dave. Too many companies have treated us, or at least our data, poorly. That is one of the things I really like about the GDPR....

I don't think you need to grant someone control. The issue is that both the nodes (or all the nodes) need to be able to open the DMK. Usually the...

Glad you like them. Since so many people use them, thought it would be good to get a little series on different aspects.

I have no idea whether most people read books or articles on phones, but I would guess articles as well. However, the Kindle created a whole ecosystem of people that...

If that's true, then how could they lose more than a day or two of data? Offline shouldn't be accessible remotely. A human would have to kill tapes.

The table has to do with licensing. If you have a factor of 2, then you need two licenses for that processor. This was added as processors grew and changed...

Fixed Agent Roles - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/agent/sql-server-agent-fixed-database-roles?view=sql-server-2017

Wow, crazy. They might not use offsite. Lots of companies have moved away from that. I think most assume that user errors are discovered quickly or failures wouldn't go back...