Thanks for the suggestion. The trace activity is coming from Red Gate Software - SQL Tools. If I ask my coworkers to close SSMS (because we use several...

It's really a matter of preventing someone from accidentally using the connection string for the production database. A dba or sysadmin should have sole access to the login credentials...

Oh thanks Lowell and S.Buddy. Those are great suggestions. I'm going to look into that trigger. It ought to work nicely with SQL Server authentication. When...

The problem is the lack of object criteria against which your performance could be measured. IOW, you should be able to agree with your manager that accomplishing XYZ or...