My first reaction when I saw this thread still active was "geez!  he's been at this since last week... he should have just bought the Lumigent Log Explorer tool and been...

The answer is on this board, not sure which forum, probably the t-sql one... search for "removing duplicate records".  We had an "unusual" problem recently where the PK had a...

are you going to ask a question?

verification perhaps?

I have not done an install since March of this year... and do not have one here to play with; but this error is familar.  I would recommend that you...

uhhhh, I thought this forum was FOR the site owners to respond

Notification gets all sorts of admin entires... and things get answered there,...

With SQL Server you must have a primary key.  A unique index does not substtitute, basically because nulls are allowed in a unique index.  Most DBs (SQL included) automatically build...

I do not know of one.  You also have a limiation of total width of the rows... and replication supposedly adds a column (with a particular name that I do...

yeah, that sounds so simple... it was tried about two weeks ago.  thanks for the idea; but it was not the solution.  Our IT people have been working on other...

Thanks again for your response.  I do appreciate the chance to talk about this with someone.  The software being used is from EMC and it's an active/passive arrangment.  The passive...

Much easier to implement a rule that developers DO NOT USE THE PRODUCTION DB for development.  They should use a development DB to do development.  You should crack down on...

More info... technically we do not have a cluster, we are doing "volumn replication"...  Restarting the service cleared the problem enough to allow jobs to execute.  There is still no...

right clicking and "remove resistration" is the way they are deleted.  Anything other than that is a mystery.

Hello Colin,

Thanks for responding.  I read your posts regularly and appreciate the feedback.  This cluster is created with third party software.  We are also running SS Standard Edition (and I...