Do a search for the dtexec utility in Books Online

I would think it is some data conversion issue. For example, Oracle dates have a much larger range than the SQL Server datetime datatype can handle. However, I...

In SQL Server there are logins and users. Logins are set up in the instance via the Security folder and give access to SQL Server for either a Windows...

So you want an active-active cluster with an instance running on each node? You are basically going to install SQL four times, once for instance BAM on node1,...

What do you want the batch file to do?

Anything in the eventviewer? Sounds like the machine has crashed so points to corrupted installation

Look in the errorlog, eventviewer etc. There should be messages in there to give an idea of what happened

Start SQL Server Management Studio. In the login box enter your desktop/server name and select Windows Authentication - this should connect to your instance. In the Object Explorer...

Did you also download/install Management Studio? If you did you can run this, connect to the Express instance using Windows authentication, right-click on the instance and change the properties...

Don't know the answer to your specific question but I always create and test the connection strings by using the following method - it might help you.

1. Create...

Sounds like you've renamed the server - you need to check the system tables to see what is configured there.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143799(SQL.90).aspx

Could it mean installation of the SQL binaries - ie: the installation of SQL Server application/services

Clustering is used for availability reasons, not for performance so it wouldn't be an influence in your configuration unless you wanted more uptime. It might be beneficial to separate...

Think you will have to turn on profiler for a while and trace logins to see who is using it. You may also be able to trawl through the...

does the first step actually complete - is the exe still running if you look in task manager?