Bear in mind that the situation you describe is complex enough that vendors such as Hyland sell software up into the six figure range (OnBase) to do exactly what you...

The developer needs to get over it. It's a reasonable request and will take him five minutes to do.

Well, yeah, but that's a different approach than he described above. Thing is though, to make it work, you have to master tokens. If you use the above...

OK cool -- that means that the account got "confused" then.

Oh, you don't want to do that, especially in a system with MARS involved. That would cause multiple recordsets potentially. You probably want to make a log table for...

I am not sure that such functionality is publicly facing. I have never seen that exposed.

Not sure from the last comment but just to clarify -- for backups it does not use the SQL Agent account but the SQL Server service account. If they...

Brandie Tarvin (5/2/2016)

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jeff.mason (5/2/2016)

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If I were you, I might try some proactive restores of all backups for a time to verify that there is no systematic problem, but if not...

That date pretty much means we were both right on the release date. Now to try and convince some vendor to support it. For us that is...

This happened to me once, just as you describe but with a log backup. Another DBA accidentally deleted 50,000 rows unintentionally during business and we had to do a...

If you are seeing a failure to take a manual backup, it is almost certainly permissions based. Make sure the SQL Server service account is a domain account that...

You probably tried this, but just in case try to connect with the port instead of the instance. If you do that, you remove browser-related issues out of it....

Bergan

yb751 (4/26/2016)

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^This

Great...

GilaMonster (4/26/2016)

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Fixed that for you. 🙂

I loved it. A lot of other...