Something is very wrong here.. I'm starting to supect something as simple as a dodge network card.

We're now seeing this

Notice the per-second droputs and lousy transfer rate - this is...

Sorry, I didn't actually answer your question there did I.

Yes, theres a load balancer, but only the web servers are on it.

The mirror is only accessed during a failover.

The principle...

I have some more info, and this is the reason I HATE not having control of the hardware.

The servers are physical boxes, not virtuals.

There is indeed, only one NIC in...

Thanks, all..

Solved the problem. I guess this is because of the conditional logic.. with anything more complex, I'd split it into caller and two separate procs.

Cheers, again.. got a happy...

As far as I know, the master db was not touched at any time.

The user db was restored as per usual, ie, no special parameters, restore database [name] from disk='etc'...

Lynn Pettis (1/4/2010)

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A true master knows when they know less than others think they know.

The trick is knowing where and how to find the answers to the questions where your...

More of a personal take than a systems one, this..

I got fed up with remembering a load of passwords for various things..email accounts, server login, workstation logins..

So what I did...

Have to agree with a previous comment - mos tof use are way happier problem-solving than talking.

My recent experience was that I *knew* SQL Prompt would help me and a...

My 2p worth.

The image you present is important, sure, but only to the audience you're interacting with.

Also, it depends om what message you're trying to put forward to that audience.

As...

You're absolutely right, of course.

I should have said we're a medium-sized multi-national, head office in London, with offices in Europe, US, Latin America and the UAE.

We depend a lot on...

A few years ago in the UK, the Government decided to give a tax break to companies who allowed users to buy their own machines.

The scheme went like this:

The company...

It's not a pretty picture here in the UK, is it?

Our government lies to us all the time.. generally now, whenever we get some bit of information from the politicians...

Personally, I'd love to get out the UK... however, I'm not too sure the US is much better 🙂