No...

Thanks Marcin for the links... i'm sure they'll make interesting reading!

Silverfox, Our entire SQL farm (dev, test & Prod) are being run under VMware and I can honestly say we've...

Marcin,

Could you expand upon what you mean by " You should turn off baloon driver for these sql servers too!" I am not overly familiar with this driver but what...

There's no single perfect backup strategy. It depends on the size of the DB, the amount of data that's allowed to be lost in the case of a disaster, the...

Isn't that what we recently went through Perry? Oh no that was a migration 😀

DKG,

What do you mean by Restricted? Are you referring to the Database State/Restrict Access options?

Philip,

I haven't installed SP3 yet but have heard that you cannot uninstall once it's been applied.

Check out this http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/2960/ it may be of use.

if...

Hi Bob,

Sorry, can't really help you there as our SAN storage is FC based (even for POC!)

Hi Dheath,

We are approximately 90% through a SQL Server consolidation programme albeit on a much smaller scale. The main business driver for this work was reducing hardware costs and...

Hi,

I too have seen this problem and the way I got around it was to reinstall SSMS and the service pack. I didn't have time to investigate why it...

Sam, I think it's time to go and have a little chat with your manager...

Interestingly ESRI's website has no reference of "Linked Servers" and ArcGIS on their website. Have you been to their website downloaded installation guides etc? Why not call ESRI...

Hi SQL_Quest,

If only it were that simple... ESRI GIS software tends to be quite specialised and requires SQL to be configured in a certain way. Have you checked out...

hmmm pork chop for you me thinks Jeff !!

Rem - Check this url for SQL 2005 Build versions (includes cumulative updates)

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/2960/