I'm really surprised no one mentioned [url= http://www.openfiler.com/%5DOpenFiler%5B/url%5D. Some of us don't have the luxury of shelling out hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars for a...

I'm also going to have a play to see whether you can have a formula as the increment field. I'm not sure yet just how useful it will be...

Same here. Voted and...

The Powershell button would be totally awesome. I clicked through to vote and it now says "voting has been closed on this item". What happened?

@moiseevb.i

I like your modification.

I would suggest swapping the following:

????@subject????????????=@MSG,

????@body????????????=@SQL,

Such that the @subject =@SQL and @body=@MSG. I find having the job name, server name and failure notice right in the subject would be...

peterob1 (2/21/2012)

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Smashing bit of info for a newbie like me to file away against the day of disaster.

I notice people saying they can't log on like this, (Single user mode.)...

Tom,

Other way around. I want all the rows from the first table. If there's nothing to join on in the 2nd table, I'll take NULLs.

It seems to...

Dave,

Thanks. Looks like OUTER APPLY is the way to go. Now, how do I do the "next" due date only? So, if there's 2 future due dates, I...

Multiple simultaneous drive failures in a RAID5 array. 2 disks went bad at the same time. I think that's getting more at what Steve's original article was about.

But...

That's the thing isn't it? So many...

Thank you both very much.

I ended up using DTSBackup.

I'm also saving Jason's code as that looks like it might come in handy.

Again, thanks so much for your help. Have...

How about being able to wildcard the object name? If not, can anyone tell me how to add that to the SP?

Before everyone jumps on me let me explain... We...

Just an under-managed techie i'm afraid 😉

Timothy, I'd argue that you're making excuses. You're right that "things were different 100 years ago" as the OP suggests. However, this is the world in which we...