You know, you are right. Some useful tidbit of information found during a search is all that is required to help keep someone on track with a project. ...

I've thought about writing and even saved information I was working on for topics that I thought would be interesting. Why haven't I actually submitted an article? Insecurity....

Thanks for the info. I have more confidence that this won't cause problems with the currently installed subsystems.

Thanks for the answer. You affirmed what I knew was the case in the past. I was just hoping somebody knew a way to apply service packs to...

I'm not sure what was causing my error. I had changed the columns on part of the publication. I wound up dropping the table from the publication that...

Yes. Most definitely I want a SP3. It is very confusing to keep track of all the roll-ups and patches. I thought the MS advice on the...

I noticed that no-one has given any advice on this.

SQL 200 SP4. I'm getting same error when trying to re initilize a transactional replication with a new...

gettgin same error, same symptoms, transactional replication. The DB being replcaited to was off-line for a while as it is a test server. All other replcaition from two...

The site edited out part of my syntax on the previous post. Here are the commands that got edited:

--sp_helpserver will show you the name SQL currenlty thinks the...

I've renamed a lot of servers on SQL 2000 and haven't had any major problems. None of them had any BI stuff (analysis services, reporting services ) installed. ...

OK, no response so far. So let me rephrase the question.

Does anyone else also see this behavior in the SYNC_ views created for replication.

Do you have server monitoring software that can monitor the application event log? Another method instead of having SQL send the mail is force an error to the the...

Thanks for all the responses.

I could not find a tab that was a summary tab nor a way to display one. Am I missing part of the functionality? ...

I miss the "lousy" application EM because SSMS is missing key functionality - including the view taskpad type of option. I'm looking for a replacement for the lost functionality...

Worst performance problem:

Developers not understanding transaction isolation levels.

My specific worst performance problem: Developers not understanding what is going on behind the scenes of a 5th GL that was...