Agreed. Xp_Create_Subdir did not exist in SQL 2000.

DL380's are indeed sweet boxes. We have a couple DL580's for something we are doing becuase we needed 4 cpu's for bus bandwidth. I can't wait for the day i...

We spoke with Data Mirror.

Yes, they undoubtedly know what they are talking about. And it took a couple of senior engineers later to get to the point where they...

Phillip,

Thanks for the upbeat response.

We haven't given up as such. But more avenues are closing.

Since you asked, these particular boxes a DUAL CPU / Quad core - 16 gigs ram...

Thanks Noel,

It looks like I went down the same road as Andy did 6 years prieviously.

Andy is correct; the scheduling all of this becomes a bear.

My scale is actually a...

If you leave a publication set up as it is out of the box (using the wizard), the log reader is created to run in continuous mode. It never dies...

Yes, indeed, an advertisement and not a lot more.

For similar solutions:

Legato (now EMC) had Co-Standby Server, which has now evolved into Autostart. I have used Co-Standby since its days with...

I too have used XP_crypt.

Great tool for field level encryption. Its a good way to encrypt a field (which becomes a column) so that someone who gets the table can;t...

I am in a DBA in an organization where we did something like this long before we ever of SOX.

When I took over the DBA job, the previous DBA was...