Yeah- that looks to be the case... but what about the initialization- there must be some way to control the amount included in a single transaction. In my case...

In order to ensure identical factors for this experiment, Shrank the transaction log file to 50MB (autogrowth on, growth factor 500MB) on both publisher and subscriber deleted the subscription and...

Will do...

Thanks David- will give that a shot. Will cut it in half and see what that does to the TLog size.

There must be some way to govern how many changes it makes before committing a transaction...

Both databases are set to simple mode (as indicated in the original post).

yep- that was my exact understanding. OS admin was trying to basically say "it can't be done" because there is only one disk... I think he just didnt want...

totally understand that- so the right thing to do is reformat the disk and properly align it?

retention period was initially set to infinate- which was definitely a contributor to the problem. I've been gradually decreasing the retention period over time.

nevermind, found it here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Blocking/64474/

Always get the answer right after posting! I DID look before posting, btw... just one click too few.

Thanks for all the input- I think I have to tell them: Want another instance, buy another shelf on the SAN... which basically means there isn't going to be...

everything I've read indicates that a second instance must have it's own resource disks. Where were you able to find information indicating otherwise? Any documentation supporting that configuration?

default trace and blackbox trace are recording specific events- they are basically the same as running a profiler trace, but without the flexibility of specifying exactly which events you want...

Are you seeing this while running dbcc checkdb against large databases? I have seen this occur under that condition... SQL 2005 performs more extensive checks in Checkdb than...

.\administrator is the same as hostname\administrator. '.' just means "local host". I would not say .\administrator is any worse than using hostname\administrator.

maybe what you mean is why is...