Hi Just to back up what i said earlier, i read this in an article written by Brad McGehee on another site

Now, here is a very important step. This is...

Accorinding to Microsoft and BOL the only way to change the SQL Cluster virtual name is to re-install the SQL cluster.

I don't think you will be able to install...

If you rebuild the index without specifying the fill factor explicitly then it will take the value stored in sys.indexes...i.e. the value specified when the index was created (or the...

when you restore from a file or filegroup but you don't retore the full database backup don't you need to apply transactions logs too...to make the database consistent?

As the previous post mentioned, i had some trouble connecting to Excel when i migrated a server to 2005 64 bit...Jet drivers are not supported on 64 bit.

One more thing,...

I think the upgrade advisor will only connect to instances of sql server 2000. I.e it won't connect to a 2005 instance even if it hosts databases that are at...

Clustering is at instance level...that is your 64 bit edition instance running on node1 will failover to node 2 if for some reason the the node 1 can no...

The following link talks you through changing the server collation (or master db collation)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179254.aspx

It is a relatively complex task with quite alot of work and it won't be possible to...

I think the second article above implies that BOL is correct, which is why i added it after i sent you KB, but if you have tested it and it...

Phil,

I think the following article may answer your question:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329204

http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1028

What an absolute disgrace.

Firms that introduce these policies deserve to be the ones struggling in this economic slowdown and with polices like that to motivate its most important resource...

I'm not sure where I stand on this, on the one hand the openness of it means that there is no whispering around corners when it comes to pay negotiations,...

not sure of all the steps you could look at SSIS as tool to help you. Not sure of all the steps involved and i'm sure there will be many...

Don't know what its like in the US but in the UK its not just 'bad' businesses suffering. In fact if you business is managing to keep its doors open...

will the finacial crisis affect me? Yes it will.

How much will it affect me? i don't know, depends if i keep my job.

should we panic and stress about it?...