Storage setups (in a SAN) are an art unto themselves. The usual way to get around contention for disk resources is to zone the SAN. This is akin to setting up...

The only guideline that I've heard about relating to this sort of thing is to keep your windows volumes with about 20% free space, for performance reasons. That would mean...

Check out this thread:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=5&messageid=190504#bm190540

Also, i know the subject has been discussed here several times before, but i am not able to do a search right now. Try searching the forums for...

AJ, it's indoors (100% of the day)

Check out Lumigent Log Explorer. You may be able to get an eval version and fix the problem.

There are a couple of other products that do the same thing,...

I've been using DLT tapes for a long time and haven't had too many problems with them - they're pretty much rock solid as long as you use them as...

One thing I've learned since graduating in 1992 (B.S.B.A. International Economics and Business) is that I've done a lot more reading and 'learning' on the job than I thought I...

That would be when I would quote my hourly rate (including travel time).

No really, if it was someone who was cool while...

Compaq (now HP) used to have an 'Active Answers' section of their web site that did what you are asking for. You would answer some basic questions about your application,...

Yep. It was at a former place of employment, and I left them with documentation about the process (and there were comments everywhere in the code and job stepsm,e etc.)....

I had a situation where I needed to have certain users be able to kick off a DTS package frm a web application. I wanted the DTS package to run...

Also, you can remote desktop (assuming the cluster is Windows 2000/2003 into the SQL Server virtual server (use the network name of the virtualserver). On the login screen, hit the...

From what I've heard talking to developers (and managers hiring developers), the MCAD/MCSD is less worthwhile career-wise for Developers than the MCSE/MCSA/MCDBA is for Server Admins and Database Admins. While...

SQL Mail and SQL Agent Mail work just fine on a cluster (it's when the SQL Server virtual server fails over that causes the problems). You just have to log...

I prefer (on my important DTS packages) to create a table to log job steps (something like tblDTSLog, etc.). I add steps in the DTS package itself to write to...