check out the system event log for this

simple solution

put away your list and simply say OK, i will live with whatever privileges you give me. than when things go wrong, pester him with emails and phone calls...

we use HP hardware where i work

Proliant DL 380's are quad core and go to 32GB of RAM. they just release a DL 580 that will take up to 256GB...

this is great

i'm going to look at the earlier sp_who code and see where it passes the status to it. i have one server that always has over 1500 connections...

just configured a new server to be a super subscriber for a few hundred GB of data and i took care to try to do it right. so far it's...

Phillip Cox (2/5/2008)

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Hey,

In terms of running your SQL Server system on direct-attached storage vs SAN storage is primarily concerned with following:

1. Capacity

2. Performance

3. Scalability

4. Availability

5. Reliability

6....

if you just need some data, why not just restore it anywhere you have space and copy the data

which SAN vendors have you talked to?

that's true and...

how many people in your IT department?

how many have access to admin accounts?

how many of those admin accounts have access to those files?

do you have different local admin passwords on...

crever (2/1/2008)

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I don't understand how you can say LiteSpeed is too decentralized. They push everything up to a central repository and you can do all of your reporting from...

i've been using Veritas since 2001 and it has had bugs as well. i'm sure Litespeed has bugs since they have new versions and patches. MS maintenance plans can be...

i talked to Litespeed yesterday and probably won't buy them. nice feature set but it's too decentralized for us and backing up to a UNC path scared me.

we will...

we have been an EMC customer for years and they have great support

it works only as good as how you configure your SAN. our old one it worked great years...

i would also have a new quorum disk set up on the new cluster. the cluster name can be different, you are looking to have the same sql instance names...