Hi

Shares have permission specific problems/errors. Have you tried using the fully qualified server name directory instead? assuming you already rights on the machine/disks...

Oh well.

If i was in your shoes...i would use a technology called: mRemoteG, its free-ware which contains a XML editable file on your local OS.

Sorry could not be of more...

Step 1 DON'T CHANGE SERVER IP's.

Its just bad practice and should never happen.

I bet that should solve this issue?

First question to ask yourself during data warehousing (talking from my own experience here)...

How strong is your server? Then, look at your disk speeds and set-up of your disk array.

remember...

checks you event viewer for system updates

Hey, speak to the system admins, to add an alias on the DNS pointing to the new server.

well, as long as you have disk, you can pre-grow you file to any desired size. Think of it as a book. You can allocate unused pages, but data will...

have you checked the firewall?

Hi

a simple GUI will be the Replication monitor, it displays from start to finish.

Hey, what type of indexing are you doing?

can you tell me a little more?

so what you telling me is that due to contention my set up should be as follows...

6 CPU machine and 6 LUNS allocated for mdfs.

I can reduce the size of...

so why is the best practice to have multiple mdf's and keep a constant ldf if the log is the one with processing in it? Sorry for the questions but...

yes, temp tables which also makes use of Unions... which is fine. (that will use up tempdb space but on the mdf only if i am right?)

Now any idea why...

cool, from how i understand it is.........

tempdb works a little different as opposed to normal db's, the mdf is used in processing of query's, hash tables, union joins etc.

the ldf...

100% but that's not what i am asking, my question is what is it used for.

file type specific.