I don't think so. Why do you think that the procedure cache was the culprit? Do you have any data supporting your suspicion?

If you had network issues that is much...

Where do you need that? In a function? In a SELECT statement?

Please clarify

Start here:

SELECT 1024000 / 100000.0 AS lakhs

Maybe...

Which product more specifically? BackupExec? Veritas Storage Manager?

What's your question?

DAC is always enabled (and it's a good thing!). What you can disable is connecting to the DAC remotely. By default this is disabled, so the only option to connect...

This is probably what you're looking for:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173823.aspx

There is no way to do that in a relational database.

I would rather focus on the reason why you're getting blocked, find the root cause and fix it. Can...

So it's an intermittent failure, it's not consistently failing?

In this case, you should monitor the network on both sides (SQL Server and client) and see if you're experiencing some failures.

Is 2FA enabled on your Gmail inbox? That could be the cause.

See this article: http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/datamgmt/dbprogramming/setting-up-sql-server-database/ and some of the comments.

This article describes the steps required to troubleshoot connectivity issues:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2102.how-to-troubleshoot-connecting-to-the-sql-server-database-engine.aspx

With "less secure apps" Google means legacy protocols such as SMTP, IMAP and POP3.

There is no risk in enabling these protocols, at least no more risk than what you've had...

You need to find and kill the associated orphaned distributed transactions. Easier said than done.

In this case, the distributed transaction hasn't even started because of the provider error, so I...

Is the file there?

Can it be accessed by the SQL Server service account?

Is it read/write?

1. It will verify if login exists else it will create login.

2. verify if user exists in db else it will create user.

3. Pass database name.

3. Input to sp...

IMHO Log Shipping is still the best option for DR in many situations.

If you thing that the time gap between backup/restores is an issue, maybe you're looking for HA...

Granting permissions on a database object is as simple as this:

GRANT <some permission> ON <some object> TO <some user>

What do you mean with "dynamic script"?