I wish more people would do this. Really it's more that management would...

Jim P. (5/22/2013)

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My question is still how to scale out SQL. It never seemed that MS designed the system for multiple access to a DB. So while you can scale...

Knowledge Draftsman (5/23/2013)

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This reminds me of an article I came across earlier in my career... The gist of the piece was that every employee should know how to do their...

Sean Lange (5/22/2013)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/21/2013)

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Grant has a Surface RT. However Sean said "For the Touch I do not have the newer version of the OS. I have...

Grant Fritchey (5/22/2013)

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Hey Steve, which apps. I'm just curious. I moved to a WP last fall and with one exception, I've found it better than my Droid. The exception is...

Thanks for the update. I'm not sure I would have thought of that, but a great catch.

Did you use some type of hex editor to find this?

Gary Varga (5/22/2013)

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One aspect that is often overlooked in DR is the restarting of applications. Certainly application reinstallation is often thought of but sometimes what is missed is that there...

Grant has a Surface RT. However Sean said "For the Touch I do not have the newer version of the OS. I have the older and much less expensive version."

I...

Can you set a login trigger and look for the login from BCP to the instance? I wonder if there's some issue connecting back from BCP.

Can you dir the path...

Sean Lange (5/21/2013)

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I can't speak to the desktop version however I have a Windows Phone with windows 8 on it. I also have a MS Touch. I find that there...

You still haven't explained what elevate means. Are they using the EXECUTE AS syntax? Or are they just connecting with these accounts?

Lowell has the potential issue. A proxy could do this for sure.

Other than that, I'd still guess it's some weird permissions thing. You could to a

xp_cmdshell "dir > myfile.txt"

and then...

I don't have a 2008 SSMS handy to test, but it may not work. It should, but it may not. Are you connecting in a query window or object explorer?...

I would check permissions. Doesthe SQL Server service account have permissions to the e:\test drive? It likely doesn't by default.

In most cases, you don't change anything on Windows Server. If there is AV running, you need exceptions for the SQL Server data, backup, log, and error log folders.

All memory...