just changed DBA positions where I was go to for it seemed like everything to new smaller footprint shop. After only 2 weeks I realize the amount of stress...

not a brain freeze, user told me error said did not have access, went to desk of user executing sql against master................

i believe this adds read only functionality to a windows/ad group which is ok. What I was looking at doing was this

Add windows\ad group helpdesk as a login.

Give it...

suprised you would want to look at contracting, right now lots of sql dba positions open all over, in the midwest most of the large cities have dozens of openings

can a reporting server node also be used for the backups?