I looked at the SQL logs and it's as if the installation of the hotfix keeps running over and over again.

I have attached a portion of the log.

They are at the same windows patch level. My problem is that we can't failover to the other node because of the hotfix 2494088. It is preventing the...

Thanks everyone for your replies. I set up merge replication with the publisher and distributor on one server and the subscriber on another server. Both sides have update...

Did you ever find the answer to this? I have the exact same two jobs disabled.

Thanks.

Patti

They are. We are doing another failover test tomorrow. I will probably fail again.

What I am going to do is this:

1. Failover the databases to...

Okay guys...where are the aliases define? In SQL Server or in DNS? This is where I am getting confused. I've been searching everything, reading everything I can...

Abrukovsky, Did you use them on clusters?

Hey Perry, since the IP address doesn't change does that mean I would have to reconfiure mirroring and anything else that I have configured that uses the host name to...

Hey all, I just got a chance to see your replies and thanks for taking a look.

We do have 2 domains. One domain is in one...

Lynn, I realized that since I am setting the safety to off I could run it. I made the change and it work.

Thanks alot.

Hey Lynn, while I gotcha. What does quotename do?

Awesome. No I didn't try that. I decided because I was on a time crunch to hard code the script for the databases using [dbname]. I will...

Thanks. These guys want everything replicated. It will be interesting! 🙂

Either way, I am going to have 2 distributors, 2 publishers and 2 subscribers. Is that...

They do though. Both sides have an app server and the app server points to the SRVR/INSTANCE/DB located close to them. They both want to updae and they...

These users want to be able to use SRVR2/INSTANCE/DB as a backup server in case SRVR1/INSTANCE/DB is down and vice versa. Technically both SRVR1/INSTANCE/DB and SRVR2/INSTANCE/DB are the same...