I dont have a server with replication enabled with me at the moment, but there is a job that checks for expired pubs by looking at the date of the...

Glad you found it helpful. You'll have a better chance of a reply on your question if you start a separate post I think.

Have you tried looking at the debug output using -output and -outputverboselevel?

I've got an old article that also has notes on how to do it:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/20010425205439_1.asp

You have to have connectivity at the network level before you can worry about replication. Whether that's an internal LAN, WAN link to other location, or even VPN over internet/direct...

Thats a good enough solution! We'll work on getting a few SMO articles published, not much out there on it so far. Has some very nice features compared to DMO.

Referring to the earlier post, you can call BCP by using xp_cmdshell. Building your own extended procs requires C++, sometimes you can get nearly the same functionality by using the...

What error are you getting?

Do your users call a login proc? Pretty common for something like this to be called once per session and you could either just count the calls to it, or...

Rob, you give individual users sql logins?

Thanks for the follow up, will save someone else a headache someday.

I try for a consistent schedule at a time when I'm rested. Always found I could study better at the beginning of the day. For several years I studied at...

This has been fixed.

Not sure what happened there. I'll get Steve to check.

Steve manages the content and will sometimes recycle older content on Fridays if it seems to still be relevant (often because someone has asked a question recently that the content...