Ramkumar,

I may have misunderstood your description of your system configuration. Since you have set the -PublisherFailoverPartner parameter, that sort of sounds like you have Server D configured to be...

Server D is not configured as a Publisher in your replication scheme, is it? If not, then the behavior you described makes sense to me. Only Server A...

Sure. It actually wasn't MSDN, it was Books Online, on Technet. Here's the link, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157285.aspx.

The relevant quote is, "SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008...

Thanks, Jack, I appreciate your feedback on the training.

Regarding the second question, we currently have Reporting Services installed on it's own server, without the database engine. The Reporting Services...

It can't be said enough times, this is really a helpful reference. Thank you, Steve, for maintaining this!

Is anyone (else) out there working as a hybrid data analyst / DBA? We do something like that (and of course, our logical data models look pretty physical a...