I'm referring to the option in cluster manager where if the agent can't start it causes the instance to failover to another node. I'm trying to see how others have...

Another thumbs down on QOTD.

Use ' net start sqlbrowser '

Don't think this question is all that great. There is a backup and restore strategy with Azure.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1792.windows-azure-sql-database-backup-and-restore-strategy.aspx

Thumbs down on this QOTD.

This is just one article you can look at about dropping a clustered index.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms190691(v=SQL.105).aspx

Are those within the distribution DB or within the publisher DB?

If i run some queries against the sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats I don't see many high fragmentation levels.

I believe the sp executes update statistics.

Are you trying to insert all the data into a table and then pivoting the information in a specific way or are you wanting to keep appending columns to an...

This question gave me a headache.. then I went to the reference page and it got worse. Looks like I need to read up on this so I can understand...

I'd like to add on and ask a question as well, when you click "Restore from Device" does the application actually go through all your network adapters one by one...

I always look at the technical aspects of the server where I plan to put the database, maybe one server has better hardware than another. If I know the performance...

Oakland A's fan here.. never been a fan of the evil empire after they got Rickey Henderson from us.

Sometimes I still feel that we are the farm system for every...

I was just asking in general.

Thanks for answering.

Yes I have queries and reports as well that need to be migrated. Looks like that may be the most difficult part of the process.