Sounds
scary, huh?  And it surely can be!  Here’s an example of one such case: A client of
mine had implemented a 3:rd party backup solution in their VM Ware environment. 
This shouldn't affect the SQL Server backups.  Or that was the plan.  I won’t
mention what backup software this is, since I’m sure that there are other software
also doing ...

In foreground, attendee makes dreaded ''shoot myself'' hand sign to the speaker. I was just telling the good people of Charlotte about how they (and how YOU) need to read all things by Paul Randal (blog | twitter), except for all of his cheesy romance novels like Caress and Conquer written under the nom de plum of ...

''Never'' is a strong word, so let me say that we really really want to avoid it, if at all humanly possible.  In short, we will have a (potentially) broken database, both at the physical level and at the logical level.  Read on. 
Just to be clear, when I refer to a ''log file'' here, I'm talking about a transaction log file, an .ldf file.  Ever so ...

To many, this is a non-issue, since SSIS is installed anyhow.  But not everyody installs SSIS.  I for instance prefer to keep my production systems as clean as possible and only have what I really need (a principle which is harder and harder to live after as years go by...).  Also, not all Editions of SQL Server comes with SSIS. 
I did a ...