Great idea (maybe), but who prioritises which of these great ideas is of most use to the business?

The main issue for my organisation (like most I suspect) is that we...

Sales pitches can be fun. Ask the sales guy a technical question. then watch him squirm.........

However, I'd rather go to a deep dive tech presentation any day.

In a previous job, we had a new Oracle-based application (our first). My employers had engaged a reseller to consult on implementation; their chief consultant fancied himself as a technical...

We will soon be forced to move to a 'flexible workspace' where everyone hotdesks and therefore has to set up in the morning and put away before they go...

If parents smoke it doesn't mean their children will. My parents both smoked. I saw what it did to them, that's why I never started. My husband is the same.

My...

I was personally not keen on it either but it is standard practice in our company and we had a tried and tested procedure to follow. I cannot emphasise too...

You need to test thoroughly before removing builtin\administrators. If any service accounts have been given local or domain (ouch!) admin but no specific access to the instance, then they will...

Have you considered removing the BUILTIN\Administrators login to the SQL server? This will stop any users with local or domain admin from connecting to the database server with sa rights....

I work for a large organisation which uses SAN storage extensively. While the DBAs here also get a 'one size fits all' response from storage, we find that they are...

Not sure if this has already been said by someone, but the method we use here for portability of file system references is a DNS alias for the server and...

Some wise person once (allegedly) said that 'experience is what you get just after you needed it'

Don't feel like an idiot. We've all been there!! Glad you sorted it.

I think...

Hi John,

I haven't tried your exact scenario but I have seen some of these messages when installing SQL 2005 from scratch on a cluster and maybe these suggestions will help:

If...

Have you tried using server storage for encryption rather than a user-specific registry entry?  Set your package encryption to 'server storage' when you design the package. Deploy it to a...