I think Access has lots of issues for this reason, though you can back it up. There is a "compare": https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/compare-two-versions-of-a-database-database-compare-a969a77a-5251-4b59-84ea-74e12a135a05

However, that's not great for a VCS.

People hate upgrading, and...

I think early on the decision to not encrypt Express backups was sales to try and get people to use Standard. Personally, I wish they had a low=cost license for...

It was a Marketo/Adobe outage. Things should be working now.

Ugh, send a note to the team. Not sure what they broke

NoLock for payments is great. Just send me an email and delete my account from your system and I'm fine with whatever you want to do.

I love everyone as sysadmin. Gives me plenty to do if I'm paid by the hour 😉

I do have concerns about the current generation of vehicles.  Adaptive cruise control works, sort of.  With other features it feels like we have quite a way to go...

I'm not sure the cone placers are driving. They are protesting cars in general, and assuming autonomous cars are adding to the problem, not solving them.

Personally, I think Zip cars...

I do that far too often. It always makes me think how Star Trek would work in practice, with all the touch screens and being in battle.

Yep, different. Thought I might have typo'd, but they are different.

You can increase the timeout for connections, but honestly, to me this is a proactive things DBAs need to do. VLFs are less of a problem in modern versions, but...

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The 1st thing I do when I start my wife's Skoda is to turn off the lane assist function.  It's dangerous.  It either doesn't work when you expect it...

Little background. Apologies if you know this stuff.

A symmetric key is encrypted by one or more other methods. You can have one method (cert) that encrypts multiple symmetric keys.

At the...

OK, that looks good. I know that the cert formats are a little strange. The challenge I think is a lot of certs from authorities are formatted for the web,...

William, might be good to have a new post, but did you use the CREATE CERTIFICATE syntax in SQL Server? Can you post what that did and the error?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/create-certificate-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver16

The...