I think compression is your best bet. Can you zip or use a product like light speed to compress a backup, then move those across your network and restore on...

Are you sure its a login problem or is the issue that it cannot find the server? Are you passing the instance name along in the login string?

Yes you should find the root cause of the growth and attempt to kill it. In the interim why not do frequent transaction log backups and just delete backups when...

Sure we do this all the time. The big limitation with blades is the expandability - particularly cpu's and PCI slots. So we don't put anything needing extreme performance (8X...

Is this on a SAN? Many higher end SANS will now do Snapshot backups. The SAN disks are momentarily paused with writes going to cache, then a snapshot is taken....

What kind of performance issues? Can you get the individual queries to the differents systems to work ok? If on different servers, add them as liked servers onto 1 of...

I have had similiar issues with drives that have bad sectors. Is the disk new? How was it formatted (RAID controller, OS ...)? Have you tried to reformat the disk?...

I work 7:45 to 5:15 with a 30 minute lunch. The concept being that I take every other wednesday off. However that only occasionally happens as I have meetings, system...

I would also put my plug in for the speed of the disks. Raid 1 with 10K disks might be slower than raid 5 with 15K. (assuming your controller can...

Have you tried connecting with Bliss's IP (XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX) instead of the name? Or tried the fully qualified domain name e.g. bliss.med.com?  If you could get to a command prompt I...

For SQL 2000 the answer is here http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/reskit/part2/c0461.mspx?mfr=true

"All Active servers in a cluster must be fully licensed, with either Processor Licenses or Server Licenses. However, if a server is...

I agree with Lynn. And a reseller audit is somewhat suspect as you know they want to sell you more product. When in doubt call MS. I was completly boggled...

I've tried to hire 3 DBA's since 2001 and I have never gotten a very good pool. Usually the bulk of applicants are Network admins that have "installed SQL Server"...

hmm good question. My knee jerk reaction would be to union the tables together (probably make a view) and do a fuzzy grouping to find the grouping of common customers.(

I agree with Mr Dougherty, in a perfect world we would not want or need to do this. Unfortunately when you get patients in the ER, getting a correct spelling...