sound like you are talking about database mirroring not log shipping

is the witness on its own box

go into the distributing profile and change to continue on data consistency

if i remember right you cant remove articles without dropping and recreating

have you run the replication monitor to see if it is waiting on something

well if you are using 32 bit version you can create an excel linked server

Well that depends on the audit

as far as the trigger you probably want to put the audit on a different drives any way, for performance stripped

the question would have been alright in 2005 when that was an issue

so the only people to get the question right were people have fully patched sql 2005

msdb doesnt allow transaction log backups

just look at the properties of the icon

I get that error all the time when i first setup DBMail

It just means that either you dont have rights to the SMTP server

or that you entered a bad ip...

i agree with kw if the choice is up to you it is better to probably have 2 fields with the start time and the stop time rather than the...

yes you are using both the old method and the new method of joining in the same queries.

The old method is not going to be supported much longer

it is best...

Very nice, now if i could just get everbody here to get off of sql 2000 i would be set

I agree with david the importing from excel is bad at best

Pretty bad considering they are both microsoft products

I always go to csv files to import

Although MS screwed that up...

if you are talking about an hr database the needs to be updated on each server then merge replication would allow that

It you are talking just reporting off of one...