Just a brief note regarding your scenario...  It appears that the Cluster may not have been set up properly from the start.  You said "This patch required that we define...

I should have mentioned in my first post that we cannot use database mirroring because the database is still SQL 2000 and we can't upgrade it yet.

An XOSoft support person...

I have SQL 2000 and 2005 running on the same instance of VMWare, but only in a test environment.  Since VMWare can have quite a few instances on one box, the...

We had to patch our Cluster a couple of years ago, but I couldn't recall the exact steps.  I found the article that I used though, and you just need...

Try looking for Management Studio here: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\BINN\SQL Server Enterprise Manager.MSC.

I haven't read it through entirely yet, but it looks like a good document.  I don't have much experience with Oracle so it helps to see the comparison between SQL...

I've gone to the conference for the past 4 years and think it is very worthwhile.  There are quite a few sessions to select from so you can pretty much...

There are views in the master database that have 'select' granted to public.  I don't know if you'd want to restrict those views or not, but I hope you have...

Right now we have a SQL clustered environment and feel that having only one database is a single point of failure.  Also since the database is pretty large (250 GB) and the...

We will be implementing WanSync HA later on this year, but have been pleased with the testing results.  Our temporary license expired before I was able to do testing with...

In case anyone is interested, my issue is resolved.  I was talking to my previous supervisor (who is now the director of IT) and he asked me how things were going...

Actually, yes, but he is new and getting pressure from those who have been here much longer.  So far he's in my corner....  I'll take all the luck I can...

Been there, done that.  Users don't want to use Access or Excel because they are too clumsy and slow.

"Luckily" someone updated an entire table wrong yesterday so I was able...

I thought of those things too, but I do not intend on "training" users as it would enable the snowball effect (plus I don't have that kind of time).  I...

I can't set the system to use windows authentication only because of the 3rd party applications.  Creating views would not solve the performance problem because the tables are huge and the...