Thanks GilaMonster... I was basically looking for someone to confirm what I already knew and you spelled it out perfectly.

Managers just don't like hearing that there isn't much you...

How is your backup drive configured on the SAN? 775GB in...

We primarily use mirroring in our environments and we do not setup clusters in this way but I think this is certainly possible.

1. Yes log shipping is setup at...

The question isn't is your login part of the sql server sysadmin group. What matters if is the login is part of the actual windows System Administrator group, or...

Yes it does make sense to break tempdb in to different files even if they are on the same drive. This still helps to alleviate contention issues with tempdb...

We are using 10G R2, but seeing horrible performance when I try to use SSIS. I tried both the provider from Oracle and the Microsoft provider and didn't see...

SP2 fixed alot of bugs like this. It has fixed numerous problems in our environment when it comes to properties windows and dialog boxes.

I've been playing with Reporting Services and Analysis Services for the first time and I had this same issue with the login dialog box popping up when deploying reports.

The solution...