I think you are outside of Microsoft license terms, and that you need to use the appropriate edition for your workload.

If you are not sure, speak to whoever manages Microsoft...

I agree with George.

All site requirements (should) exist to improve reliability, availability or performance. Any sensible set of site requirements should include a requirement to leave the...

Although it is right that people with high-level rights are trusted, it is also important to verify they are not abusing that trust.

In most installations where trust is an important...

I am not sure if the left hand talked to the right hand at Microsoft.

A command line install of a SQL Server service pack is a standard feature....

My understanding of Oracle RAC is that is is a 'Shared data' scaleout. There is nothing equivalent in SQL Server, the closest is the 'shared nothing' scaleout offered by...

To add to Steve's reply, the groups you refer to are created by the SQL Server install process and are part of the standard Microsoft security configuration.

It is technically possible...

What problems and messages do you get when you try to do an unattended SP install? This can be made to work without intervention (see FineBuild 2.1 for an...

As many people have said, it is (probably) not possible to prevent someone with local administrator authority from starting SQL Server in single user mode and then working as a...

You are on the limit of what will work if you have 16GB RAM and /3GB switch in boot.ini

By using the /3GB switch you are restricting Windows to use only...

After you have restarted SQL Server in single user mode (as described above) you can add the login BUILTIN\Administrators to get your access rights back.

It is best practice to set...

I'll second the warning that if D-T is not configured correctly it can be a cause of problems. But I will also say that when it is configured correctly...

Are you saying that when you run from a command prompt the package works correctly about 1900 times and you get the expected data from DB2 then it stops working?...

I would add:

Document the problem you are trying to solve. Then identify which of the HA solutions is the best fit for your problem.

Sometimes Clustering is the right answer,...

I am sure I have got native DTS packages to run on SQL Server 2005 64-bit, so it may be worth building a test environment with this configuration to see...

If you have someone in your organisation who already knows how to use DoubleTake for non-database files, then ask them about setup and configuration. There may be some site...