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No, that's what puzzled me. Well, it's there on one but not the other, but it only has the 'public' Server...

Thanks. I just need to take a sec to eat my words a bit because there's no evidence that he's done that. (He's still somehow got accounts on instances he...

I'm just checking back now... the trouble is I don't know exactly when it would have happened. I'll stand back from DEFCON1 for now :-).

(Am I looking for something like...

Oh yes, I did know about that actually (but thanks!), but it didn't occur to me that somebody would use it as a back door and not just in a...

Thanks. I did try Googling but I can't find anything that explains quite what I am after.

Not unless you either have granted local administrators or domain administrators groups a login...

Did you specify 'with rollback immediate' or anything like that (to roll back uncommitted transactions)? Because if not it can take ages.

In the UK we do that too, venonym, so 123.456789 has 9 significant figures but 6 decimal places.

What I'm really trying to find out is why this is bothering you, when it happened, what has changed recently (i.e. have you applied any updates), etc. etc. Without the...

Ok, so have you applied a cumulative update?

(I'm hoping somebody else will come along and be more helpful in a minute :-D.)

Ok, well I can't see the image you've attached, but presumably you've applied a cumulative update or something like that?

What do you get when you do SELECT @@VERSION ?

That's a very open question. What version were you expecting?

sestell1 (11/7/2013)

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You could also set the database to single user mode (with immediate rollback).

This will kick everyone but you off of the database, and keep other people out until you...

OR had somebody else possibly taken another full backup after yours and before the differential backup?

Your full backup wasn't a copy-only backup, was it?