For those of you who have arrived here after attempting to install from a mounted .iso image, try this:

- Uninstall any features that failed during installation or whose related service...

I got an error when trying to add a semi-colon delimited list of e-mail addresses to an operator like this:

addr1@domain.com; addr2@domain.com

Note the space after the semi-colon.

When removing the...

Thanks for all the suggestions.  It turns out that the SQL Server box had the regional setting for short date set as "m/d/yy".  It's not a sql specific setting, but a...

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.  Julie - I think the solution you provided may be the best interim.

JHouston - the package I have now already does this dynamic assignment using...

Specifiying 'ON' instead of a value between 24 and 7000 defaults the threshold to 256 bytes.

So the fourth answer would be equivalent to doing the following:

sp_tableoption N'Employee', 'text...

I agree with reading exactly what is asked.  I guess what got me is the slight vagueness in the question.  "She needs to be able to add and...