We use LogClarity, by LogFidelity, to do the same thing. It gathers and stores raw log data, including SQL server traces, but also separately stores the data after it...

I want a great big dumpster and permission to throw whatever I want into it.

That's great information. Thanks again for your time.

Thank you for your feedback Michael. I have one question about the large e-commerce web site though. When a user checked out or otherwise exited the site, did...

Ok Gregory, here is the question you've been waiting for. Why did you use mirroring, as opposed to replication, to move the data to the reporting server when a...

The available tools are certainly mature enough now for BI to explode.  The problem is that the amount of resources required to carry out a BI project properly has not changed...

That's the strange part.  The DBCC INPUTBUFFER showed that the SPID was not stuck executing one query.  The SPID would submit one query and then another, etc.  It appeared that the...

Thank you for a thought provoking article.  I work with a sales force automation application that puts this concept to excellent use in the formation of primary key values.  To...

I have had a similar problem, more than once, when using a stored procedure as the source for a Crystal report.  The stored procedure executed fine and returned the expected results...

I've been using it for about a year. I've done backups, restores, and moves and haven't had any problems with the software itself. The hardware we backup to...

This is all set now. It was timing out when trying to log on to a linked server using an outdated password. I updated the password in the...