R2 is basically an upgrade. Depending on your licensing with MS, you'll need to buy a new one to move to it. It's not simply a service pack.

CirquedeSQLeil (5/5/2010)

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Grant Fritchey (5/5/2010)

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Lynn Pettis (5/5/2010)

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Paul White NZ (5/5/2010)

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Lynn Pettis (5/5/2010)

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Grant Fritchey (5/5/2010)

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Make sure you've got your kilts in order gentlemen. Kilt Wednesday at the PASS Summit is going to...

Can you post the specific error?

I agree with Jeffrey, but not because I'd be sweating the SAN just going down. By and large those things don't go away. I'd do it because you never know...

Maybe you mean you validated the backup and it failed, or you ran DBCC against the restored database and that failed.

Pass, thank you, and that's without following the link.

He does seem completely certain that there is no possible solution. I'd hesitate...

Lynn Pettis (5/5/2010)

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Paul White NZ (5/5/2010)

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Lynn Pettis (5/5/2010)

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Grant Fritchey (5/5/2010)

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Make sure you've got your kilts in order gentlemen. Kilt Wednesday at the PASS Summit is going to be a happenning...

Make sure you've got your kilts in order gentlemen. Kilt Wednesday at the PASS Summit is going to be a happenning event this year.

And the developers can change the isolation level with connection properties as well.

And hash tables for join operations and table spools and lazy spools and index rebuilds and...

You get the picture. Tempdb is a major source of operational space in the server,...

If there are only five values for that guid, it's very unlikely you'll see improved performance from it.

You can tell what SQL Server is doing with indexes by looking at...

I'd say it's time to learn it. There is just so much capability built into it now from MS plugging it into every product they're turning out these days... It...

So there are only 5 values for the GUID and you're proposing using it as the leading edge of the index?

No, that's a problem. You're going to find that the...

Oh, I went over there expecting a good thumping. That was a reasonable response.