The need for a modern DBA to know more has nothing to do with quality or work or skill. Those things are important, and I hope that most employees are...

The SPAM has always been an issue, but the last year it has gotten very bad. I am hoping that some of the scripts and SPAM checking we've added are...

That's pretty cool

That's going to be hard to do. The only good way to tell if your install has connected is with an extended event session that looks for activity from the...

If you find issues, there is an upgrade thread, but I'd prefer you open new threads for issues now in the Website Issues forum. That way we don't have multiple...

Was that supposed to be in another thread?

The filestream stuff is linked to the particular table/column. The on disk location would move if you create a new column, but if you move the data (insert, the delete),...

I haven't thought about this, but the in-place upgrade is supposed to replace the existing product. Once you do this, you cannot go back.

As Hugo mentioned, I'd be...

Weird. I've installed 2014 dozens of times on various OSes, never seen this.

Silly question, but have you rebooted?

It can. If you are looking for information that the database was created, you can check for the message "Starting up database mydatabase". Once a database is created, it will...

I would agree that you want to use CommVault to make the log backups and restore them elsewhere.