Liquid cooled computers are not new (sort of).  In the 1970's, the IBM 370 mainframes were water cooled. I saw the innards of one while on the data center raised...

Thanks to all for the answers!

Thanks to both folks who answered.  Yes, 2008 R2 is out of support - tell my management :-).

I got timed-out error message from SQLServer Central, why same question posted twice.

The Informix relational database engine has had this feature for years.  During a bulk load, you can tell it to ignore the error or place the offending record into a...

Thanks!

Question:
Does it matter what order you do the OS patch and SQL Server patch?  Some of my development servers I plan to do the SQL Server patch first, then the...

Turns out the items suggested by various posters and Google search mentioned above worked AFTER a complete server (box) reboot.  Thanks!

I have tried many of the suggestions in the first link (Missing SQL Performance Counters), including the registry settings.  The second link has a lot more suggestions in it, some...

I just tried the lodctr /R option (successfully run), and restarted the BizTalk SQL Server instance.  No effect, still get the 8319 and 3409 errors in error log.  Any help...

To answer Sue_H questions:  I made the change for the service account from SQL Server Config Manager - I actually do not know what the "Services applet" is.  I did restart...

For me:
College courses:
ALGOL first
Fortran next
Univac 1108 assembler
Machine language (coded compiler)

Jobs:
Fortran using time-sharing system first
Fortran using "beta test" version of Unix (early...

Again, thanks for the input. I guess I was "smoking the cheap stuff" when I came up with the original plan. I knew all along that upgrading is...

Well, looks like I put way too much "stock" into what compatibility mode does for you. My thanks for your answers. Looks like the named instance may be...

Normally I would agree, but in this case I was going across two versions. That being said, I have received my answer so no need for anyone on this...