Minimum upgrade point will depend on your migration cycle and where you are from a timing perspective. If you just migrated to 2016, you may not be ready for...

How can MS help? By prodding the lazy vendors to support newer versions. We are held back by vendors who in some cases are recommending 2008! And these...

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Interesting topic and I've had to consider this many times over the last few years. In my experience, places I've worked at have usually been software assured, so straight licensing...

Cheers gfoxxy93.

I had come across that article when I was researching the topic. Was very surprised it's only been fixed in SQL 2016 so that all user database creation, irrespective...

Hi,

Anyone have any ideas on this?

Thanks Anthony. Appreciate your help.

I'm embarrassed to say a total school-boy error on my part! Thanks Anthony. Haven't really looked at those tables before, but should have known they were in pages before posting.

Because...

Quick update: Rather bizarrely, I've just discovered, in desperation, that I CAN change the start up mode (and hence start) the SQL Agent via Services in the Control Panel.

Given...

Thanks for your response MiguelSQL. Unfortunately adding the Service Account to the local admin group didn't work. Fails with the same error message.

What I want to achieve is to be...

Hi all,

Thanks for your responses - appreciated. After spending a fair amount of time researching on Google etc... (and coming across those links mentioned by Welsh) prior to posting the...

P.S: Hi Manu,

I had 'BAK' in the extension box. I also tried both '*.*' and '*', but it made no difference. I guess that makes complete sense if it...

Dear All,

Thank you very much for your replies. Much appreciated. Yes, it is SQL Litespeed I am using as the 3rd party compression tool. I didn't realise that the SS2005...

OK, thanks Markus.