Dang it - you are quite right. Per socket is what I thought I wrote...thanks.

If it is already installed and you are upgrading - upgrade everything that is installed. If you are not using SSIS, you could uninstall it, but at this point...

pshaship (3/20/2010)

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I'm NOT seeing these warning messages when I restart the nodes in below order:

Restart Node1 (Active)

Restart Node2 (Active)

Restart Node3 (Passive)

If I did not follow the above order to restart...

Ser Tharg (3/19/2010)

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I need some clarity on Licencing on the CPU side:

- Dual/Quad core: this only counts as one...is this correct?

- If you have 2 SQL servers on one physical...

pshaship (3/19/2010)

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Thanks Steve,

We are using maintenance plans for Maintenance tasks, so we need SSIS

and we do not need SSRS & SSAS and I already skipped those. But my question is...

That looks correct to me. Any services that are managed by the cluster need to be set to manual.

BTW - did you get your SAN issues squared away? ...

Yes - but that is what would be so much fun 😀

Hold on - you don't need an NLB cluster for this. Enterprise Edition allows for scale-out reporting services installation.

What you do is install reporting services on each node in...

GSquared (3/18/2010)

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john.arnott (3/18/2010)

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Sometimes I think about teasing my DBA by saying stuff like "since clustered indexes are better than non-clustered, ...

So, one of your customers upgraded to SQL Server 2008...

I have to ask why this requirement to downgrade the system? Is this for a customer that has not upgraded yet or is there some other reason why you...

And there you go - that is exactly why we call this a community...

sqlolmy (3/16/2010)

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We need to use SQL BIDS 2005 to access a SQL 2008 Database -Can this be done? After we create a new Project and datasource in BIDS 2005...

824 errors are indications that you have a problem with your IO subsystem. You need to work with your server and SAN team to identify why you are getting...

Why are you trying to split up the processing? SQL Server will take care of that for you using parallelism. If that isn't working fast enough, post the...