Ordering always helps too...

I think we have agreement on using DTUTIL....:-P

I agree that you should only rebuild or reorganize indexes periodically. And only do the ones needed! I found some good scripts on this site to do just that....

Any error messages?

This not a MySQL Forum??? Try posting to 'Anything that is NOT about SQL!' forum on here!

Use your result of SELECT @@servername to put in the Registry Key.

Your SQL BINN should be a shared SAN Drive and you forgot your Quorum Drive too.. Work with your SAN Engineer to seperate your volumes across different LUNS!

Databases are meant to grow! You need space for the data and indexes, many problems come into play if you don't have sufficient room to grow and do proper...

Well put Steve..... BRAVO!

As far as hardware goes, I think it is a Mgmt. decision and should be consistant throughout your datacenter!

All factors lie within Mgmt. expectations of there data operations!

You may want to try connecting by IP:Port? Could be a DNS issue?

Excellent, thanks for the links as well!!!

I would agree that these 4 are a good starting point.

I agree with Jeff and do the same in my environments.