if you really want to use a sql agent job to do this you could have two identical jobs that run every 10 seconds. Job one you run statement as...

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There is not any other way but to give sysadm

have you tried to remove all the sql tools and reinstall?

Sounds though like a 32bit 64 bit issue with WMI. I am assuming you have restarted the server --> if...

have a job created that populates a user table so the user can access the data.

looks like a duplicate post from 2005 - but same applies - I would save the packages to the file system and just copy them for deployment. You can easily...

SQL server can handle this but typically you will have far better performance if you store the images to a file system instead of in the database. Oracle also can...

I would deploy to the file system - than you can just copy the file to the server it needs to be deployed to.

The amount of page splits would depend on the fill factor and the type of data being written.

also typically active\active clusters do not provide any real benefit unless you have a lot of resources avaliable for it. It would be a better idea to go Active\active\Passive in...

fill factor 80 seems a little low - I would review the fill factor you are most likely cauing more page splits than needed

if you do it you would want one set of disk per instance. each server would only need the binaries installed once

it is fine but I would still keep the SSAS and DB file on different sets of disk and make sure to set the memory correctly for each so they...

have you tried running profiler or trace against the cubes to get what you need?

if you have enough resources and enterprise edition you should be able to do the operation online and only rebuild if you need to. I would start with looking at...