If you subscribers already have the all of the data (which they may not since you imply that you have already renamed the server and replication is not operating), you...

By default, the SQL Agent SSIS step type executes the 64 bit DTEXEC binary.

There may be other workarounds for this but the one that I am using the moment is...

If there are trusts between the old and the new domain, the users from the old domain should be OK. Otherwise, you will need to add them again on...

The BULK INSERT statement runs as the SQL Server service (not as you). The windows account that SQL Server is running as needs to have permissions on the share...

The OP was asking whether something was possible which is what I answered. He wasn't after recommendations on particular products. Yes I did mention samba ("a product like...

Michael Ebaya (11/3/2010)

Does no one actually care the...

How about one of the following, each of which have some degree of separation from the application that enables you to run the code that writes the fax file using...

Thank you to all of you who have contributed to this discussion. I am kinda glad that I was too busy to read the article and the discussions until...

All things being equal, you do not need to worry about the order that the servers are started etc. Replication is smart enough to re-try. At worst, you...

It looks like you created the publication using the default "repldata" folder (something like c:\program files\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\...Repldata\unc). When the snapshot is generated, the name actually used is written...

I find that the easiest way to get started with XMLA is to look at examples and the easiest way to get some examples is to use Management Studio. ...

Replicating from 2005 to 2000 will work OK. There is a general rule for replication that you need to use...the distributor needs to be the highest version/sp for all...

Cross database ownership chaining can be turned on either at the server level or at the database level (have a read of http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188694.aspx). So, your concern about having to...

I would prefer that you gave a better answer/reason for the result of the first expression being 1 instead of 2. The reason is not simply because of the...

The information you need is in the views INFORMATION_SCHEMA.REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS and INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE.