John Hanrahan (4/19/2016)

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A couple of notes:

For web browsing a pretty safe way is to use a VPN service. You can sometimes get lifetime service for 30ish dollars. It...

robert.sterbal 56890 (4/19/2016)

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Andrew..Peterson (4/19/2016)

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I use an Ubuntu VM for...

Yet Another DBA (4/19/2016)

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I suppose one problem is if the ransomware sits dormant for a couple of weeks and then activates. A restore from a 2 week? or 5 week...

Luis Cazares (4/19/2016)

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That would be too easy for them....

I'm not sure what you mean by "bring database to run". That doesn't make sense in English.

Is there a SQL Server item in the control panel/Programs? This is usually an...

I haven't done the PHP connection, but users are usually not listed as server\administrator for a SQL login. Usually you would put in just Administrator.

Make sure you don't have the...

I'm not sure I consider Verizon a tier 1 cloud provider. I think they might disagree, but my view is they've gotten into a business they don't understand and convinced...

Maybe accuracy in CPU math is overrated?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/links/643469/349632

They're not bad here, but they are off by days, and with snow, can be way off on amounts. Even 24 hours out.

Seems like half the time they say snow...

I'm not sure there's much out there. Typically I've seen TDE in the 5-10% CPU range, increase, but I haven't looked to see what percentage of that is tempdb. It's...

xp_cmdshell isn't interactive, so anything you run here would have to run without any additional input from the command line.

I have been able to automate things like http://ftp.exe by using...

Look...

Sean Lange (4/18/2016)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/18/2016)

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No more snow here, at least not forecast. It's cloudy, and foggy. Never know. I think weather forecasters are flipping coins half the...

Jeff Moden (4/15/2016)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/15/2016)

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I'd hope a cloud provider wouldn't have this happen and would have plans for multiple redundancies and the ability to move systems elsewhere....

No more snow here, at least not forecast. It's cloudy, and foggy. Never know. I think weather forecasters are flipping coins half the time.