Just so the rest of you can feel jealous, I got a hug from Gail and a handshake from Rodney last week 🙂

I'm sure someone will. Feel free to start a FF2013 thread.

That's not true.

First, upgradation isn't an English word. It's merely an upgrade, or upgrading to SQL Server 2008.

Second, upgrades from SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2008 are supported to...

wolfkillj (6/20/2013)

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...In the absence of a feature that would block or hide posts from a particular person, the only suggestion I have is to just ignore those "nuh-uh!"/"yuh-huh!" posts. People...

Happy to help, but we don't like to do homework, tests, or work work for you. Make an attempt.

You haven't really explained how the data should be joined, or...

Run the upgrade advisor.

There's no simple/easy way to answer this. There can be issues, or the upgrade may go fine.

I'd recommend side by side upgrade rather than in place, but...

+1 to what Gail said.

It's possible it corrupted during a copy, but that doesn't mean your copies are always going to do this.

I don't love the save definition, because it doesn't include fielding.

However, it's not the runs later are more important, but the situation changes and it is harder to perform in...

I don't think this works natively.

Red Gate software makes a tool (SQL Source Control) that does this.

http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-source-control/

Disclosure, I work for Red Gate.

+1 to what Howard wrote.

Errors 823/824/825 will be raised.

If you suspect corruption, run DBCC CHECKDB.

calvo (6/19/2013)

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Yeah, that's the problem I now have with "clutch", it is meaningless. To try and have a formula for defining a clutch score based on probabilities and leverage indices,...

The larger the file, the more changes that something breaks when it's transferred. I've had issues with downloads from MSDN that won't work, but when I re-download, things are fine.

I'd...

Eric M Russell (6/19/2013)

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... Perhaps Microsoft has intentionally capped the investment on SSMS, implementing basic management functionality, thinking that 3rd party tool vendors or add-ins will fill in the gaps....

First, did you do as Gail asked and copied the backup file locally to take out network issues. They can be problematic.

If so, then you have a corrupt backup. No...