Our SAP core systems are running Windows 2003/SQL 2005 x64, all VM's on esxi 5.1 hosts. I want to migrate as much for the OS as for SQL. ...

I'm an accidental DBA, but also spend quite a bit of time with Systems and Exhange issues. We have a group of people who work closely together on all of...

The biggest drawback is that appliances will not match other servers that are monitored and serviced by a vendor that you have established a trust with. I'm a big believer...

I've been on both sides of the hiring equation more than once. So here are my tips to the job seeker.

The first goal is to get a face-to-face interview....

Google.

Years ago, I was on a project in England synchronizing the databases of various mail systems. We encountered an undecipherable error message from a Lotus Domino server. None of...

Works fine for a stable software enviromnent, but who has that?

One problem is that, like it or not, most development projects include meetings with a mixed bag of systems engineers,...

I don’t know all the details about their app. Surprisingly, their developers don’t either.  I’m going fishing in Costa Rica next week and won’t know much ‘til I get...

Thanks to all of you for your help. I’ve learned from all of you. The runas fixes seem more complicated than I anticipated: both to implement and (especially) to...

Gotta go with the Texas Longhorns as a longshot. Both football and basketball champs in the same year would be talked about for years.

Three thoughts:

First, for me at least, your friend’s problem about servers stopping mysteriously in the...

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"2001, A Space Odyssey"

Not exactly a "geek" movie, but one of my three top movies in any category.

The other two, definitely non-geek:

John Ford's "The Searchers"

Kurosawa's "RAN"

Without sorting,

Thomas Edison

Albert Einstein

Ronald Reagan

Lenin

Pope John XXIII

Winston Churchill

Ghandi

Martin Luther King

Bill Gates

 Marconi

Thanks. That's the info I was looking for. I'm sorry I wasn't more clear in my description. I'm using transactional pull replication from a production database server to a read-only database...

Steve,

The point many of us have been trying to make is that the cluster should have its own cluster group, including an ip address, network name, and disk resource. Each...