And some of us are accidental DBAs who are terrified of something going wrong!  No MS support, and although we have support for our servers and networks, it's hands-off when...

My husband calls it the <name of our city> discount.  I have a 4 mile, 10 minute drive.  Anywhere in town would be less than 30 minutes.  My husband works...

Living in a small city with not too many opportunities, I spent years trying to get people to hire a remote worker.  Only one (Siemens) would even consider that, and...

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Oops, another update.  I ran that O365 trace report on an earlier SMTP mail it told me used TLS 1.0, and that also said "Message received by: DMXXXX using TLS...

An update - after checking that "force unencrypted" option, I dug around on the Office 365 security and compliance site and did an email trace.  Maybe that fixed it!!!  :-O ...

When I worked in a larger company and had to do maintenance programming, I learned to write better errors because I hated this kind of thing.  SQL Server gives you...

Being primarily a developer, I don't know exactly which licensing you're speaking of.  I do know, however, that our vendor OKs & recommends a test system, and we do have...

I suppose I could do one as soon as I restore - but there are over 20 databases for the software.  I do have Ola Hallengren's solution doing DBCC every...

Thanks everyone!  So glad I'm not on the wrong track here.  Always good to get validation, especially because I don't know what I'm doing 80% of the time (I'd rather...

Thanks for the validation, you guys are great!!

P.S. >>P.S. Ditch full backups every hour. Once a day should be enough. Unless your TRN backups are compatible in size with full...

Sorry, moving to more appropriate forum (backups)