does the vendor support using a DNS alias in the connection string? If so and automatic failover is not vital to you you can still use mirroring in high performance...

you need ms11-049 and if you are running reporting services ms12-070 (both security patches)

pre-reqs and hardware it will be obvious from the error message. permissions you will probably need to look in the summary log or perhaps the detailed log.

thats a big question, but probably most installation failures are going to be caused by

a)lack...

if you want to see max throughput for your disks see SQLIO, if you want to see how your disk subsystem might perform under a typical SQL server load see...

duplicate post, see http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1420846-391-1.aspx

the job could be being executed from another job or some application code.

Script out all your jobs and look for sp_start_job in the output and if necessary run profiler at...

would need to know what you are trying to acheive by doing this but perhaps you should read this:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/65896/

another pro alter database argument, if the dbid were to change that would affect the default database setting for logins (presuming the default was the user database)

pretty sure nothing in msdb is affected by a detach, it would be too time consuming to remove backup history for example.

Jason, for an article on the benefits of alter database method and why it is the preferred method for SQL2005 onwards see here[/url]

I would add another reason, with detach\attach the...

have you tried starting the SQLagent service from configuration manager or the services applet?

note: 3 year old thread!

sounds like you are trying to install post SP4 security patch MS12-070(version 5234) without first applying SP4 itself (version 5000)

go back and apply SP4 first.

BTW, unless you have reporting...

I would try and avoid putting it with any database files