as long as it doesnt use anything which is in the Differences Between Lower Compatibility Levels and Level 100 section of that article then yes

the compatiability level only affects certain things like DBCC CHECKDB etc which behave differently between 2000 and 2008

take a look here for the difference which are affected with the compatability...

as long as the differential backup taken from the primary is in sync with the full backup which initialised the secondary you should be ok. if you have done...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326318.aspx

Are you sure that the files dont already exist?

How are you doing the restore via T-SQL script or the wizard?

take a look at the restore database commands in BOL or google it will detail how to use with move and replace etc

the problem is your trying to restore a...

far to much to detail on a forum, as Koen suggested a Google search will be the best way to go

swine

its not true load balancing, you can spread out the reads but you cant spread out the writes.

no, its only a fail over cluster for the database engine, you can load balance SSRS but that is done via stand alone nodes using scaled out deployment, SSRS and...

the script i provided will also give you the information but for all reports which have subscriptions so your not having to load each report to view its individual subscriptions

your confusing the physical user with the actual user, its the user which is running the AOT which needs to be sysadmin or DB_Owner not the user sat in the...

then you dont have a local instance of SQL installed which is why you cannot connect

SQL SERVER (instancename) where instancename is the name of the instance you want to connect to, if its default is MSSQLSERVER, if its named it will be the name so...

can look in config manager or services.msc, looking for a state of running or started depending which you look at

are the sql services running?