Thank you for the replies. Do either of you know how SQL Server interprets these queries? By that I mean, are they always considered ad-hoc? And since...

I'll be researching this on my own. I was just hoping someone might have some additional insight or a good link I could read.

Sorry for your loss and the families...you are all in my prayers

You get me every year

Taggs, thanks for the info.

Perry, have you run into any issues with failover on the VMs? And if you don't mind me asking, could you tell me your system...

Thanks all!

I was originally worried I would install SP3 and Security update (.4053) and think I got everything. However, there would have been an additional CU or...

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I looked at the build list again and it appears that there were no updates or patches released in between SP3 and the Security update. So, there can't be...

No. Sorry for the confusion. Here is what I know. My dev SQL Server has SP3 and a security update on it to make it 9.00.4053.00 SP3 Enterprise...

GSquared, Thank you!

sqldba_icon,

The dev server I have already has SP3 and the security update installed, but I didn't do the installs. I don't have another place to...

GSquared,

According to the link, it appears that I only need to install SP3 and then the Security Update. Do you know if I'm reading that correctly?

Patch Level ...

I will check it out and reply back. Thank you.

Can System Center Operations Manager be used for this type of monitoring?

I have not used it before, but the Output clause might work.

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I had access to the server and could see I was a member of the Admin group. However, when I tried to connect to SQL Server I could not....