Promises of transparency by companies are not tenable when the federal government will sometimes not allow these companies to report when the data is requested: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/12/microsoft-twitter-rivals-nsa-requests

We don't have...

Ah! Good point. Thanks.

I tested this in SQL Server, which I think you would agree is the ultimate arbiter here. I executed each statement separately. In both cases, I received "Command(s) completed successfully"....

You can associate (re-sync-if you will) database users with server logins on the destination server using the sp_change_users_login procedure. For example:

exec sp_change_users_login 'UPDATE_ONE', 'dbUserName', 'loginName'

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174378(v=SQL.100).aspx

Thanks to Steve and Rod and to anyone else who has something to add. This is very helpful.

I have lots of email traffic to keep up with, so adding another thread of information has to really, really be worth it.

I would be interested to hear how...

I have used the Home Use Program to buy deeply discounted Microsoft software, such as Office 2007 and most recently Office 2010. While I have used other software such...

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