Can you confirm whether you are wanting to implement Transactional replication or log shipping ? These are different. Are you requiring your secondary server instance of SQL server to be...

In your wsfc, if you look in the failover cluster manager you should have a resource group for your installation of SQL server. This will have been created when you...

You do not need to script them 1 by 1. You can script them all in 1 go. Or inside of ssis you can create a package to copy objects....

I understand your frustration. I have been in a situation where it was forced on us to move from HDS to netapp. You should be able to run a restore...

Ninja's_RGR'us (6/23/2011)

NEVER a good idea to blindly do what...

It is a little difficult to get your head around the new concept of not having a physical .bak file. I am assuming your company has purchased snap manager for...

Does your table have an index on the column in your where condition ?

As stated the use of the upgrade advisor will inform you of anything you need to change or rectify to allow you to migrate. On a dev\ test environment either...

Ok all this is hypothetical until you can actually connect to your production server to get the actual information and determine your requirements.

If your tapes can only hold 1...

As I said previously, to determine a backup strategy suitable for your situation, you need to know an understand your RPO & RTO. Ie if there is a problem how...

How did you come to the decision that you need a full backup taken on a Monday , with differential backups taken on every other day , with 5 minute...

Does this insert that the developer is doing have to be done manually ? You could set up an automated job to call an ssis package as indicated above or...

Knowing your growth rates is a very useful thing. To make it easy for yourself in the future once you have created your SQL script being called by your SQL...

You may have it already in your software suite, visual studio 2010 has a compare that you could use.

From your windows 7 machine are you able to connect via sqlcmd ? What protocols are enabled on your server ? Named pipes, tcp/ip ? Combination of or only a...