I'm not sure that those of in the technology field can really speak to what is going on with the unemployed who don't have the right skills and no clear...

We found that having user option XACT_ABORT turned on was causing the problem. No one is sure how this got set in production since user options (...

I wonder what ever happened to the Star Trek vision of humans prospering and in many cases being "released" from the drudgery of certain types of work by machines. ...

Not sure if hotfixes count as builds but there is one that takes it up to 3350

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2832017

Still working on uninstalling everything related to sql 2008

I've applied everything I can find for sql 2012 management tools and mine now show 11.0.3350.0 both on my desktop and on my test server. ...

Thanks to opc.three and Gary. That looks like just what I need. Powershell is shaping up to be a very useful tool. I just downloaded...

That sounds right, will have to see if group policy will change it

No very few stored procedures but quite a few indexes and foreign key constraints that will have to be modified. So far the apex sql refactor tools just seems...

Guess I was looking for that "easy" button. We can test in production, on Sunday, but don't have a good tool to apply a typical business day load. ...

Maybe the larger question is why an employer would have the gall to request this.

I was given a document outlining the installation of the BMC Patrol for sql server 4.3.2 agent ( 2009 ), which is to be installed on the monitored servers. ...

I can respect that, especially if the salary is commensurate with the responsibilities.

I think it must have been some experience with DML triggers, not a DDL trigger that would rarely fire. I'm developing something in Tsql/agent job for now. ...

Well since its my new manager who has the concern, I may just set up a daily sql server agent job that looks for new databases ( in sys.databases ),...