I am not sure about a windows user.

However, a database user without login cannot log into SQL Server,  but exists as a database object and can be granted or denied...

Hi,

Are you trying to run a DTSX package with encrypted column, If not can you elaborate your question?

You have to make sure the linked server options are enabled to True. This will ensure and convert the local transactions to global transactions when you call a procedure or...

@aer:

SQL Server has resource hungry processes, you add RAM it will take it... and wait for more.

Every environment varies as suggested by others there is no straight answer.

Are...

This should not be a big deal.

If it is not huge and I hope the legacy...

I have not used 2022 SSIS.  But worked on lower versions, build the package and set it to 64bit runtime under properties in VS. After the package is deployed you...

• How many employees are you trying to process?

  If the data is huge then go for storing in permanent table, update the table with any legacy data changes.

  If it is...

• Instant file initialization.

Instant File Initialization (IFI) is a feature in Microsoft SQL Server that improves the performance of database file creation and growth operations. When SQL Server needs to...

Try this:

WITH CTE
AS
(SELECT
  emp_id
 ,product_code
 ,clock_in
 ,clock_out
 ,door_area
 ,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY emp_id ORDER BY clock_in) -
  ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY emp_id, door_area ORDER BY...

Try this link:

Cannot generate SSPI context when connecting to SQL Server - SQL Server |...

check this link:

http://Cannot generate SSPI context when connecting to SQL Server - SQL...

Building a new logic may take time plus avoiding certain characters, or keeping a conversion table and when there no resource available, why don't you expand the field itself.  Try...

Can you put double quotes around the -ServerInstance parameter value similar to other params?

For moving the files faster, use your network backbone.

500GB is huge... Is it compressed backup?

You can use SQL Server Integration services (SSIS) and also there are many other 3rd party tools in the market.

Azure data factory, Informatica, Ab Initio, Jitterbit, Mulesoft, BOOMI etc.