the service account should be low permisson. Setup grants all necessary permissions to the account (logon as service, etc) during install hence why you need to execute setup with admin...

your welcome.

uninstalling is fairly straight forward via the wizard, provided you don't hit any problems!

launch the installer from add\remove programs.

select the clustered database engine...

Thats the whole point of a...

TheSQLGuru (8/10/2010)

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I still refer to numerous 2005 features as "new". When you have been using the product since 6.5 first came out . . . 🙂

In any case, BOL...

As I said the virtual network name, like a computername must be unique in the...

no you cannot, like a computername the virtual network name must be unique in the Windows domain

if using BP locked pages then you should configure both min and max memory for each instance

It's your lucky day!! Check the 2 links below for...

Sam -480699 (8/9/2010)

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Hi,

Apologies if this has been asked before I did try looking around for a similar thread.

At the present moment my company has propsed that we need to...

Hi Ashwin

what you can do on XP is to set up a virtual SQL Server 2008 cluster. For this you will need the following

multi core processor

3 GB RAM

Windows 2003 Server...

let me re phrase that.

New in SQL Server 2005!

i'm assuming you're database mail, have you checked connectivity to the mail server?

Hi

copy_only is a new feature, it is basically a backup that does not interfere with the current backup chain. As Gail said, BOL does document this feature

tnk (8/8/2010)

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However, one idea might be to drop the passive node out of the 2003 cluster, upgrade to Windows Server 2008, set up the 2008 Cluster with a different cluster...