After six confirmed deaths in nearby Kirkland over the weekend, on Monday the company I work for closed the corporate HQ office in downtown Seattle for a minimum of a...

Minimum upgrade point for us depends greatly on the application which will be using it.  That is not always a current version.  I get to spend the weekend migrating two...

I noticed SQL Operations Studio popping up in a bunch of the sessions I attended last week.  First time I'd seen it, and I'm still a bit confused as to...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/25/2016)

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Tony Lanterman (3/25/2016)

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In our environment (several hundred SQL instances geographically dispersed around North America) we were required to randomize the SA password by audit long...

In our environment (several hundred SQL instances geographically dispersed around North America) we were required to randomize the SA password by audit long ago. We have a process which...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/5/2016)

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Tony Lanterman (2/5/2016)

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For us, the push to get off SQL2005 over the last year hasn't been to get away from SQL2005 as much as to...

For us, the push to get off SQL2005 over the last year hasn't been to get away from SQL2005 as much as to get off the Windows Server 2003 that...

Sean Redmond (11/19/2015)

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Has anyone tried serious licence-saving activities like transferring those DBs that can be transferred to SQL Server Express Edition instances and re-writing SQL Server Agent jobs for the...

The most annoying was back in my RPG coding days. For those two young to remember, IBM RPG was a positional language originally designed for punch cards. With...

Sean McCown had a great session on this topic at the last SQL PASS Summit (DBA-307). Very much worth your time if you have the session DVD. One...

Per Microsoft, Chrome is not supported with SSRS2012. It is supported starting with SSRS2014 when running on Windows. See the "Browser Requirements for Viewing Reports" in the links...

One thing to keep in mind is that this returns the combined size of the DB and log files for each database rather than just the size of the .MDF.

I was laptop only from 1999 until 2012. My company put computer replacements on hold in 2007 so they were in the position of having to replace 1000's of...

While unpaind interns may be the norm in other fields, I don't know that I've ever seen an unpaid IT internship. Ours are paid pretty close to the hourly...

Communication technology prevents almost all the emergency travel I once had to do. There was a time when I had an overnight bag packed at my desk in case...