I am interested to hear what your experience is if you do this.

We have decided to always use EC2 volumes, but have not experimented with using the instance storage for...

This seminar (SANLess SQL Failover Clustering on the Ground and in the Cloud) on 23 April may be of interest https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/645723002

If you are installing a SQL Server Cluster on a Windows Cluster thern you need a shared disk.

If this cannot be provided by the storage infrastructure you can...

My understanding is that a single column can support a single FT index in a single language.

This is because the parsing function for a FT index needs to know about...

Staying on an old version of a product has a cost.

Any cost/benefit analysis about moving to a new version of a product should include the costs of staying...

This link may give some useful details about proxy accounts, but it does assume that the SQL Agent service account is already set up with the required rights... http://sqlserverfinebuild.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=SQL%20Server%20Proxy%20Accounts

If you already know SQL Server but do not know SQL Clustering then you have a lot of learning to do. SQL Clustering introduces new and interesting ways to...

I am assuming that you have got your Access applications split into Front-End and Back-End databases. It is the back-end tables that you will be moving to SQL Server.

It...

The best 'workround' I can think of would be to create a command file that passes the passwords at execution time, instead of storing them in a configuration file.

This would...

I was going to suggest setting up a database mirror. This would allow you to failover to the mirrored database with minimum downtime. If the SAN version of...

Best Practice is to not move or rename files for master, model and the resource databases. There are no performance or data integrity reasons for making these changes. ...

When you know what Upgrade Advisor has found, a good next step is to set up a SQL 2012 instance in your development environment and run all your applications on...

What are your SLAs for RTO and RPO? If you do not have SLAs for these items you are most likely either using more money than your business wants...

The SQL Experss media does not include any of the pre-requisite software components needed for SQL Server. You have to deral with this yourself.

Are you checking for and installing...

SQL 2008 R2 introduces support for Second Level Adderss Translation (SLAT). If you run it on Windows 2008 R2, you should see about a 5% performance improvement over running...