to add to Lynn's reply, it's not just bad coding. More often it's a blatant misuse of priveleges. I have seen many cases of elevated privileges. Even one website which...

to add to the previous reply, at this point in the installation you are not specifying the shared drives the SQL server instance will use. Specify a local for the...

dont know where you read that!

Failover clustering requires Enterprise or Datacenter edition.

are there any other more meaningful errors in the event log?

very true. I too have experience of Netapp filers and as you say if the disks are configured...

Is it not possible for you to reconfigure the disks at this stage?

I always set it, but only really required if you intend to configure\use failback policies!

yes, that too! 😉

🙂 Lets not start discussing the 4 stroke engine here!

Extract the SP1 files to a temporary folder on the C drive and...

There's a whole host of reasons why, remember that Windows 2003 SP2 is the minimum supported OS to cluster SQL server 2008. If management are happy opting for minimum spec...

This should work for you

ON CAST(a.BAN as varchar(??)) = s.BAN

where ?? is the varchar length!

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Anyone know if there is software that is for SQL Farms. Almost like Citrix has it own farm and vm farms. Is there actual SQL Farm software?

We...

costs for 3rd party backup software are not that excessive. I prefer the rigidity that SQLBackup offers rather than using native backup compression

good point!