I've gone back and forth. I think you need to decide if you're training or presenting. The more you are trying to actually teach a concept someone can use,...

I'm not sure what the Grace Hopper setup is. And posting powerpoint slides is kinda worthless if one subscribes to the belief that powerpoint should supplement the presentation, not contain...

Wow. I was wrong on my presentation length for Grace Hopper. They've increased the time to 30 minutes (including Q&A). So I need to sit down and completely map out...

Thanks, tripleAxe, but your answer makes no sense to me. What is msdb.dbo.agent_datetime? There is no such table in my environment.

Also, I can't load variables with file paths \ file...

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by  Brandie Tarvin.

Alright, Threadzians. Who's responsible for this one?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/faulty-database-script-brings-salesforce-to-its-knees/

Seriously. What were they thinking and why didn't they test this first?

Well,...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Corporate upgraded me to Office 365 and suddenly my Skype for Business contact list is screwed up. Not only did it suddenly decide to sort people by first name instead...

The team I'm on is responsible for everything. And I don't see any job or user-created proc that is clearing backup history. So something else must be clearing it.

EDIT: The...

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by  Brandie Tarvin.

Wow...

Thanks, everyone. I appreciate the references. This makes this even harder because I just found out corporate DBAs will have the password to the account that will own the keys...

Oh, lovely. The msdb tables are dropping backup data for backups that are still on the NAS. Possibly hitting the max retention because of all the other backups we have...

Totally freakin' awesome, Brandi.  Congratulations!  I share Grant's enthusiasm here... you'll knock'em dead! Just curious... are you going to cover the flip side of the "Imposter Syndrome" about...

So it's official. I've been accepted to Grace Hopper 2019 in Orlando to talk about "Imposter Syndrome: Are You Ready To Mentor".

WHEEE... Now I have to overcome my own sudden...

Well I just updated my Windows 10 laptop (which has Pro on it) to the latest, so I'll test it there and on my work PC. You said you...

I have a quickie informational question over here (https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/question-on-encrypted-database-keys-passwords) if y'all could pop in and let me know Yes or No on the issue.

Well I just updated my Windows 10 laptop (which has Pro on it) to the latest, so I'll test it there and on my work PC.

You said you had Windows...