Trey, You are right regarding the Unix platform. He was working with Unix more than Windows and also did quite a bit of work with Oracle Database.

Regarding my knowledge,...

Steve, thats what I thought as well.

Jason, I am sure he can pick it up easy but here is my issue. I want someone coming in with more knowledge...

If someone is an expert in Sybase, does that mean that he will be an expert in MS SQL Server? Looking at a resume for an open job position.

Anybody have any news from Gus? Long time no see....

Regarding Distributor on a separate server, that is what MS recommends. Sharing the resource with the publisher is not a good idea.

Regarding monitoring, You are asking if there is a...

In SQL 2008, it is recommended to have to have domain account than SA.

There are things that you will need to do using GUI. Use your SQL Server configuration...

When you are pinging, is it continuous? Not even one packet dropped? What is the latency between the two servers?

I think you will need to involve the Network admins...

Alvin Ramard (5/12/2010)

hmm, You...

Hope everything...

I send a tweet out to find out where he is hiding. Anyone else got his contact?

Maybe we should put a rule in THE THREAD that if a regular thread poster goes on vacation , they have notify others...:-)

Anyone seen our resident CHIPMUNK? I havent seen or heard from him for a long time. I havent seen his tweets either. Anybody any clue?

A stupid question, are you replicating between the same SQL Server versions? The reason why I ask is that DATE is a new data type introduced in 2008. If it...

I am sorry. I do not know enough to give you an advice on SSIS. Hopefully someone else can advice you on it

What kind of interaction between 2005 and 2008 are you talking about? As far as I know there should not be any problems.