You need to give us more info than that - please post your table structure and some example data?

Why's that? Do they have known issues :unsure:?

It could be - given the latency between UK and USA. However, where is your VS installation - is this UK?

Could you try RDP'ing onto a box in USA and...

It will be down to the missing features not the main IIS components.

Have a look here http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/28/installing-iis-on-windows-vista-and-windows-7/

Thanks.

Edit: Beaten to it!

Well, I finally took the plunge and upgraded my RAM from 4GB to 16GB (even though Apple says they only support 8GB :crazy:) and then installed a OCZ Agility 240GB...

Lowell (6/6/2012)

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Microsoft indirectly butters my bread, so to speak, as I'm doing dev/web/sql stuff all in SQL Server and .NET technologies. All my coding efforts at work are on that...

No-one got any thoughts on this?

I am not sure whether to post this to MS Connect or not?

Thanks,

Matt

I am not sure what you are asking here - do you mean deprecated features that was in SQL 2000 and no longer available in SQL 2008 R2?

If so, take...

This is what SQL server does (by design).

What are the specifications of your machines (Proc's, Core's and Memory)? Is only SQL Server running on these clusters?

I thought about a server for at home too, however I tend to do a lot of work/studying whilst out on the road. Don't get much chance at home.

Ahh, I didn't know that.

Come to mention it, I couldn't find any examples that talked about Merge Replication and Tracer Tokens. That explains it.

Thanks anyway.

Steve, have any major changes been made recently?

I am in the UK and it seems lightening quick lately!

Take a look at this link: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2012/04/09/the-coming-in-memory-database-tipping-point.aspx

This was written by David Campbell (MS SQL Technical Fellow) - very interesting read.

Are the .csv file's just data or do they contain some DDL?

SSIS would be the perfect solution for automating this task either way - this is what it was designed...

I guess things like Central Management Servers, Policy Based Management etc.

Infact, this article from SQL CAT is pretty good:

http://sqlcat.com/top10lists/archive/2009/01/30/top-10-sql-server-2008-features-for-the-database-administrator-dba.aspx