A little more detail on what you're trying to accomplish would help us help you better. @=)

From what I understand, SQL 2008 has more Administrator tools than 2005, but most of the developer tools have remained the same. Therefore, it would behoove your company to upgrade...

The biggest issue will be performance. SSIS is a memory hog and each instance of the package (if it even allows you to kick off the package multiple times at...

Just add a flat file connection manager for each different file. Then, in your data flow, use them as multiple sources, join them with a UNION (works faster than a...

Timestamp is a really poor data type to use for any sort of date comparison. It isn't really a date, but an incrementing number that mimics an approximate date/time. It...

I had a similar problem a few times in the past when I was on SP1 for SQL 2005. I had to write out a T-SQL Statement instead of using...

What kind of job are you executing? Sounds like an SSIS package error.

What version of SQL Server are you using (including service pack)?

If the databases are being modified daily, there is something seriously wrong with the development process. There should be an SDLC (software development life cycle) process in place which forces...

So far as I know, SQL Server itself does not change the min value of the memory setting.

Are you sure you're the only person with the security to go in...

I'm going to assume you've already activated database mail & set up your profiles & accounts. However, as Tracey posted, test the dbmail proc in SSMS without an attachment to...

I would start off by getting the company a data modeling tool. Reverse engineer all the databases and then sort them in the diagram by purpose. We have a database...

You might want to check that the OS sees the RAM first. If it wasn't properly inserted or if the new RAM is bad too, that could cause a problem.

Also,...

Did you GOOGLE the error or "database_mirroring_state_change" yet? I see lots of articles on this issue just by googling the later.

Try this to see if one of those articles helps...

It's not just hardware & environment you need to be aware of. Things like available Firewall ports and security access are "need to knows" for installing third party products. How...

I ended up populating a single variable with the full path and qualified name. Then used a script task within the loop to populate two more variables, source & destination....