When installing SQL Server you have two options:

1) Collation designator and sort order (default is Latin1_General)

2) SQL Collations (default is Dictionary order, case-insensitive).

It looks like you are seeing the difference...

The screen after you enter your license information contains the advanced button. See attachment.

SQL Server can use separate threads to access each data file, thus giving you better performance.

It won't make much of a difference if the underlying volumes are not separate drives and/or separate RAID arrays. Your logical partitioning scheme with the added change from the previous...

Is the shared disk resource failing over properly? I would fail over to the 'bad' node and watch for disk i/o issues; see if you come across any Latch IO...

Yes. Log into node 1 and open Windows Cluster Administrator. Enter the cluster name and connect to it. Click on the Cluster Group and make sure Node 1 is the...

Thanks for posting a fix to this.

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/articles/dba/isolation_levels_2005_p1.aspx

Congrats!

I have a question regarding the script provided at

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/bknight/usp_databases.txt

How is this different from running the sp_helpdb procedure which, among other things, returns the sizes of all the databases?

Thanks.

Alin