Yes, yes indeed that is humorous:-D. Too bad my team isn't faring...

Those steps are a heirarchical structure for getting to your database server. The database engine is the guts of your RDBMS. It does not grow - it is...

swallow

Thanks Chris for following up.

As for the requirements and desired output, Chris was spot on. If this does not do exactly what you envisioned - we need to have...

When you say "Desktop Engine File," what are you actually referring to? Do you mean the log file, are you referring to a witness server that is monitoring your...

Nice. Just stumbled onto this little pot of gold.

lumberjack

Post the code, and we can better help you.

Joie and Bru have given some suggestions that could be helpful, but they are shots in the dark without the code.

What happens if you do it without Subversion?

I have used SVN, VSS and TFS - and have not run into this issue.

Also, we have used the same without source control...

SSIS, if used properly, can be well used to do some very good things. If using perl inside of it - you should get your head checked. SSIS...

You could detach the database, copy the files to the new location, then re-attach the database.

Since you are using Desktop Engine, and you are experiencing rapid db growth, you should...

Have you considered using a set-based method instead of the cursor method?

kindling

If you remove replication from currently replicating servers you will lose some "scalability." Meaning, whatever the reason was to setup replication in the first place - you will no...

Agree with some points that Joie made. Was there any sort of AD or network issue?