Hi Mike,

....'We have sent off this info to Microsoft (we have an ongoing open case about this)....'

Could I ask that you post whatever MS comes back with? I'd be...

Hi Thomas,

Many thanks for that. I'll certainly give it a try.

Cheers,

Dave.

Hi,

Nope, never did! I've done just about everything that I can do - except for opening a call with MS or rebuilding the cluster. I will be opening...

Hi Yelena,

Firstly, many thanks for your reply.

Secondly, yes I am using Standard SQL authentication.  I simply have 1 login used by all instances to connect to the SQL box.  I...

Hi Yelena,

Thanks very much for your reply.

Well, how embarassing is that?!  I didn't realise that the install was not meant to run.  The file has indeed been generated.  Good job...

Hi Wes,

Glad the post was of use to you!

Cheers,

Dave.

'Thanks' was the next line of that message!

Hi Pam,

Very welcome.

As a futher note (and I promise, the final one!):

Microsoft confirmed that the critical patch released in December 2005 did NOT cause...

Hi all,

Microsoft have found a way of getting around this problem.  It seems that the processor counter (viewable thru the likes of perfmon) has been removed.  How this has been...