Ny guess would be because the virtual instance name and virtual IP address are no longer valid.

Give me a break ...

- Reformance tuning, SQL execution plan.

This is a financial company ... do you want your money here ???

Steve, could you send me the picture ??? It's cool !!!

This is an excellent article for the GUI DBA ... There is also enough information to get the inexperienced DBA in real trouble as well. However the one piece of...

Call me archaic ...

SET RANT_MODE ON

Anything animated <PERIOD> No matter what you are doing your subconcious mind still reads it if it is in your field of vision. It also...

If it's a cluster then your SQL Server service accounts are already LocalAdministrators in addition to the service account used for clustering. Being a DBA on a database cluster without...

First things first - as a DBA you are only as good as your last restore ! Just because you have a backup tape you are not out of the...

If it's only a few times a month then I'd say the users may have to wait a bit for you to extract and send the file. If the user...

I'd go with SP3 and hotfix 818. SP4 is a kind of bug fix for SP3. However SP4, in some instances, introduces more problems than it fixes. If you are...

I would think that it is DNS on your last issue. Since your users are web users my guess is that your DNS server is not in thier configuration.

As for...

I'd also start shopping for another software vendor as well. The response from the software vendor of "they have no clues" is clearly unacceptable. After all they wrote and architected...

Unfortunately not. I've also found that the STATS option is pretty useless in batch operations as well. It does come in handy when performing an interactive backup from a QA...

Just this ...

Words for the cynic/realist/fatalist based on your point of view or situation:

Shepkowski's Employment Credo

-- How much do I get paid ?

-- When do I get paid ?

-- What...

Hey alz ... cute and creative (been there done that as well !!!). Hpwever there are numerous logs the Windows Admins can use, even products like Quest Reporter to uncover...

huh ???