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Is it safe to only use the Public firewall on a Windows 7 computer with SQL server which has no connectivity to the Internet?

One of our Windows 7 computer with SQL server installed on it only uses the Public firewall because other computers on the network cannot access the SQL server if the private firewall is turned on. Is ...
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IntelliCred 16.2 using Live System

I am a Data Analyst, and I need your help guys. This is my first question ever on superuser. I will explain quickly how this software works. This is credential software which saves some "information" ...
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Bizarre MSSQLSMS font size behavior on Windows 7

After several years, MSSQLSMS 2012 has suddenly started ignoring the font size setting: I've tried changing it from 8 points to 4 and to 40, with no observable change in displayed font size. ...
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How to access database server on my desktop from my laptop?

I have a desktop PC, a laptop and a Netgear Wireless Router. The Netgear Wireless Router has a secured Wireless Network Connection setup already. Its SSID is NETGEAR44. The desktop PC's name is Srh-...
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Why SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services keep crashing when connecting to remote database server instance?

Background I successfully setting up a database for SQL Server Reporting Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 using Reporting Services Configuration Manager with "Create a new report server database" ...
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How to install SQL Server 2016 on Windows 7

I know it's clearly stated in System Requirements that Windows 7 is not supported. But I'm sure that these limitations are artificial to force users to buy newer versions of Windows. And also as I ...
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SQL Server Express no longer starts up automatically

I had SQL Server 2008 Express (SP1) on Windows 7 Pro and it was working fine. After upgrading to Windows 10, SQL Server 2008 Express was still working normally. However, after the last Windows update (...
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SQL Server Management Studio 2014 won't start: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation

I'm on Windows 7 Professional SP1. I just installed SQL Server Management Studio 2014 using the 64-bit download from Microsoft: SQLManagementStudio_x64_ENU.exe, and when I click on the shortcut in ...
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Huge amount of virtual size used by sqlservr.exe - is that normal?

I'm checking memory leak on my computer currently, is that the high usage of virtual memory by the sqlservr.exe related
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Compatibility between Windows 7 and Windows 10. [closed]

I receive the free update from Microsoft for Windows 10. At the moment I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate. I have several question, for which I can't find anything in google or at least my search words was ...
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Unable to open SSMS from run window

I'm having an issues that bugs me and can't seem to be able to solve it. I have SQL Server 2005 and 2012. For the 2005 instance this is my path (for both 2005 and 2012 the path that leads straight to ...
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Accessing a local SQL server 2014 from within a VM running vista using VS2005 fails

My laptop is running Win 7 (x64) and is part of a domain. I've installed SQL Server 2014 Dev and VS2012 on it as I want to use the laptop for development. Since some of my development has to be done ...
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How do I force an application to recognise two names for a disk drive?

I have an extensive image database (3.25GB metadata, 90K images) held in a legacy product (idImager V5). This in turn utilises SQL Server 2005 as the underlying DBMS. Over time, I have been adding ...
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Do I need SQL Server paths in my PATH environment variable for it to work?

SQL Server adds things to my PATH environment variable, and over time that bloat makes me hit the 2048-char limit in Windows 7. Do I really need them there for SQL Server to run? This is on a ...
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How do I host the PostgreSQL server locally? It won't let me run as SuperUser, and it won't let me log out of SuperUser

I've spent all day working on a Database project to try and teach myself how to use SQL and PHP. When I finally went to go and try to host it, the command prompt kept closing really quickly. I took a ...
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