I do think some companies are of the belief that the term DBA is a catch-all and even more worrisome that if you know SQL, well hell - you...

As a fail-over are they talking high availability or just redundancy as these are two different scenarios. Clustered, Mirroring, Replication, log-shipping ... The question is far too broad to...

It would help if you posted the errors, or what aspects of SQL are not working. Are the services up?

Thanks for the info.

That's SP2

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Fully agreed - Either respond politely and answer the questions or you will never receive any sort of assistance.

I have gone for the past 6 years and would count it as an invaluable experience.

I knwo in all the cities where I have lived in the US - it is primarily due to a limit in public transit. When I was working in...

No advantage, disadvantage possibilites include an impact on performance due to the multiple indices.

Or will there possibly also be control characters in the result?

Have you added logging to the batch file, in that can you redirect it's output to a text file to ensure that calls are being made. In addition what...

In saying that it fails for "Bala " are you saying that you want that recognized as a seperate item?

Production on VM is definitely not recommended. In addition the comment about just restoring MSDB for the DTS move being sufficient, is entirely dependent on where your DTS/SSIS packages...