I wasn't a fan of the CBS Sports FF system. Haven't tried ESPN's system. Of the ones I have used, I've liked Yahoo's the best.

Count me in.

We don't use general domain groups for managing access to SQL Server. We create security groups in AD for managing specific sets of access and individual users have to be...

If these were available for sale, I'd hang this on my office door!!!

You're preaching to the wrong person. I documented how to use event notifications with database mirroring 3 years ago. However, the poster didn't ask about all of the stuff you...

Using Event Notifications for the backups is overkill. All you need to do is to check the status of the database and not perform the backup if the database is...

It's not new though.

I think you are confused about how mutli-instance clusters works. You can spread out the load of a cluster by having multi-instance clusters with different instances active on different nodes,...

SQL Browser does NOT need to be running. The accoutn should NOT be a member of the admins group. This is NOT related to SPN's.

You also need to understand how transactional replication works. If I run a single update query on the publisher that updates 1000 records, then on the subscriber, that is broken...

Are both endpoints using the same encryption algorithm (they must use the same encryption algorithm to be able to communicate)?

Does the OS support the specified encryption algorithm (the default encryption...

alex.kolesar (6/24/2010)

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So im connecting from the principal server to the mirror server using "SQL Server Administration", the sa account. How would I grant the sa account CONNECT privileges on...

I think it's pretty obvious that everyone in this thread knows what a differential backup is. Also, differential backups are not always faster than a full backup. In fact, a...

That is a network error that means you are losing your connection to the other server. Your network connection is not consistent.

As EdVassie said, VSS writer itself is not to blame. This is a known issue with certain backup utilities that use the VSS Writer to create backups. This includes Data...