As expected, this was on our end, in one of network firewall country blocks (so I'm told).

SSC sends email through via a country outside the U.S.?

ok. thanks

I was pretty sure that it was on my end with our exchange server folks.

SITE ADMINS:

Has the email header changed at all?

Thanks

Agree.

Just EVICT the node you are not using and your work is done.

Yes.

There are two methods I can think of, neither of which I would personally pursue.

1. Run the SQL Installation and when at the "Components to Install" screen, check "SQL...

Bloomberg Radio for me.

Windows Server 2008 Cluster Manager also will bring up the event log related to the "Critical Events" for the cluster. This might be a quicker way to parse through...

Markus (11/19/2010)

That is the one issue... named instances. We just started...

Sorry about the side question.

How are you handling "named instances" in DNS? DNS doesn't accept a "\"?

thanks

Yes, there are only two way's to do it.

The alias on a server won't be recognized by clients, so you have to set up a local alias on the clients,...

I can think of 2 possible solutions.

1. Job Is Scheduled and requires user parameters.

As mentioned earlier use a table to store the parameters that the user enters. These...

How about using encryption?

As with most of the replies, I use one trigger for Auditing and one or more triggers for "other". I prefer to limit my trigger use, so I have...

The problem with log shipping is the exclusive access during the restore of the log. Since this is a DEV server, developers would get disconnected every time there is...

We have a similar situation with conducting a bulk load on a database that is involved with "Log Shipping".

DROP ALL INDEX

TRUNCATE TABLES

BULK LOAD

CREATE ALL INDEX

This is common practice with bulk...

It's now using a bad query plan from the cache.

This exact scenario happened to us. As soon as the bad plan was removed; the sproc started running great again.