@perry, I figured out where the secondary settings were.

@perry, how do you get to the secondary database retention settings on the secondary server?

Also, we ran into a situation over the weekend where something is conflicting the...

OK, customer dba is fine with me switching recovery model to "full." Per them, their backup scripts will run fine (they are just doing standard backups). They are doing backups...

Forgive my "greeness" on all of this...

I'm sure that the originating vendor of the solution we are log shipping from (and the customer) have no coordinated backup strategy. The managed...

@curious, I managed to get into the BizSpark program and it seems that I have access to every imaginable piece of MS software via MSDN. I'm going to download and...

Good idea, on BizSpark program... I've applied...

We need to schedule jobs, so the Express edition is not going to work..

Would this work?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SQL-Server-2014-Standard-with-10-CALs-2-Core-CPU-License-64-Bit-Software-/141838962264?hash=item210642ce58:g:xogAAOSwWKtUrlRA

And is this a good price? Right now our server is only...