Check what Adiga is writing! The KB article explains it very nicely. Here again the link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316005

The input XML files (data and mapping) are referenced in the second last line:...

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Its a while since I had to do something with MS Access and SQL Server but I can remember some stuff I have done. Based on a tool for running...

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I have just gone through an exercise where I had to migrate from SQL 2K to 2K5 in 3 different locations (including merge replication and linked ORACLE servers). As...

I use NotepadWithPencil Version A4 and Brain Version 1.0 (I believe) to start. Sometimes MS Visio is quite handy, specially if you have an existing database and you want to...

Setting up a linked ORACLE server sounds pretty easy but there are some things to consider:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280106

If you havn't installed to ORACLE client get it here:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html

Install it on your server where...

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The command select @@version in the query window returns this:

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.3282.00 (Intel X86) Aug 5 2008 01:01:05 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft...

Can you provide more details about what your entries are? How is the name of your primary server? What is the name of your secondary server? Any screenshots?

Maybe this helps:...

David that's great! I'll give it a try as well.:w00t:

Actually a good and simple way to check if your servers are still reachable as part of your daily DBA routine or if somebody reports a problem.:P

Check this link http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sqlreplication/thread/634851b4-d6e6-4f76-bfa3-5bd9dae6de77/

Also the account to connect to the secondary server needs to be sa.

Maybe it helps.

Fully agree wit MarkusB. There is so much to find on the net and specially here on SQLServerCentral.

Anyway, we are a bunch of nice people and like to help,...

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A monitoring instance cannot be configured after the log shipping is implemented.

See this: http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=241170

So you need to define this before you hit the OK button!

I use log...

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From your data example I'm not quite sure what I should recommend you.

Do you need to aggregate the hours worked on a project per person as well or do you...

Have you the SQL Server DBA Dashboard installed? This will provide you with a lot of information about your server and your databases. You can find information about it...

This is exactly the type of solution I come across every day in our organization and I absolutely hate it! I'm not criticize it from a technical point of view...