It is also wise to create some general monitoring scripts to review on a daily basis (putting these in reporting services makes you look really cool to your boss as...

Ian,

What is leading you to believe that it is a port problem? What is the error that you are seeing on the client side when attempting to connect?

As for the multiple service packs, that shouldn't be the case. If you are looking for some general clustering overview documents for both products then the following links might be...

Steve,

Something pretty similar to what you are / were doing. The only variations that we have in place is the use of SQLH2 and Reporting Services for the reviews. By...

We use InDepth from Precise...I mean Veritas... I mean Symantec. The historical information that this provides is very useful in helping to resolve issues that surface over time. It has...

Yelena,

You commented that you prefer app/db consolidation over db/db consolidation. I personally would stay clear of that as you cannot lock down the amount of memory an application will attempt...

I am all for the consolidation of servers and have completed a great portion of this at my current company. We currently run all our DEV environment instances on one server...

Who knows, your experience here might have been a result of having to work with me!

Hope you have a great day!

I agree with Steve and I am sorry to hear that your experience here (yes, I am a DBA at this company) was so distasteful. However, I don't agree with...

Nextel is just as fun....

On a different tangent, if you can get in touch with someone high enough maybe you could propose acting as a consultant to outline a...

Fallen Angel,

You wonder why Christians were replying more than other religions, and the answer is because they were the only ones singled out in the article. There were no comments...

Excellent reply Sushila! I personally have had excellent experiences working with people from a variety of cultures so, I don't really understand where FallenAngel is coming from...

Thanks!

Quite honestly that had to be the worst article I have ever seen posted on this site. The article did not cover the topic at hand well at all and...

I agree with you completely. I have stated this too many times already but SQL Server causes some to believe that the production DBA is not necessary. However, being a...

I agree with Michael, pretty weird behavior and may be worthy of a call to MS.

On a side note, I would recommend having your mail processing within triggers, stored...