Sounds to me like a buggy installation, I'd try re-installing the client tools and see if that fixes your problem

OK, so you used your domain account to start the services; this probably means that you are a local administrator on your system so no problems there.

Have you granted SQL...

Beta2 is a restricted beta only available to MSDN subscribers, members of the betaplace website and anyone that has attended a conference where MS happened to be handing out copies...

I have no idea without seeing what the SP is trying to do, even though it's encrypted you should be able to extract the text using a free utility from...

I can't help you with the links but when we were looking at an iSCSI SAN and comparing with Fiber Channel we basically decided that iSCSI might be ok for a NAS...

I'm sure that bitTorrent is somewhere towards the top of their ever growing list

It'll be interesting to see whether the powers that be...

Sound like you've got yourself a plan

Seeing as you've got all weekend you'll probably have loads of time to do the normal reindexing...

We couldn't backup and restore the system databases because we were moving from 32-bit to 64-bit servers (although I don't think I would have done it that way anyhow)

We have all...

Have you checked the execution plan to see if there are any obvious bottlenecks, table scans, excessive bookmark lookups, that sort of thing?

if that's all ok then I would start...

You could always change the delete statement to just truncate the table if you always want to start from an empty set.

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We recently transferred a > TB database from a data center in Canada to the UK using a variation on the second method you describe above.

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It's a 64-bit thing, the dll works exactly as I wanted it to on all of our 32-bit systems.

Doesn't really matter as we came up with a workaround

Sounds you need to get more automation in place to me, but i'm glad to hear you're still having fun out there.

I'd have to agree with Colin, sounds like we're cut from the same cloth (yep, we're the annoying people that might occasionally complain but really love doing our job).

I've been...

We use RAC4SQL and whilst it does have it's limitations is fairly useful at this sort of thing