Thanks for the response. Yes, ping works. As I mentioned, PortQry.exe shows that port 1433 (which is the static port on which SQL Server is listening) is open.

Scenario 1 and...

mark.dean (9/20/2012)

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Regarding file management on Server Core Edition, there are numerous standalone/portable GUI file managers that work just fine on Core Ed.

Three that I've worked with:

Free Commander (I use this...

I forgot to mention this link ("Install SQL Server 2012 on Server Core"):

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh231669.aspx

It's been a while, and I thought I would follow up...

Ultimately, we plan to build a couple of clusters using the Core Edition of Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server...

We eventually got our SQL Server database backups working with the Data Domain. (Outside of the scope of the original post, we also eventualy got our Oracle database backups working...

Oops! I think a firewall was causing the problem. The two failed connections work on a different report server that is in the same subnet.

Jeff Moden (10/12/2012)

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You do't need to have MS Office installed on the server to do what I suggest. You would use the spreadsheet from your (or a user's) desktop...

Jeff,

Thanks for the feedback.

From a PowerShell perspective, I think that character-based (not native-based)...

I found this link (http://poshcode.org/1205) which works fine for charting get-process information (despite a couple of typos in the script). But I am not having any luck "trading" sqlcmd.exe output...

This link describes sys.dm_os_ring_buffers:

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Utilization-History-afe03282

Does this view just keep a sliding window of 256 entries? Meaning that the "top 1" row could be used to track CPU utilization?

Also, if the top 1 row is...

Last night, I found this link to "SQL Server Virtual Labs," which includes "SQL Server 2012 - Installing and managing SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server Core (SQL 153)."

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/learning-center/virtual-labs.aspx

01/22/2013 Update:

For...

Thanks for the feedback. I browsed through that title on amazon.com, but ended up purchasing "Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Administration" since it contains what appears to be more information...

Thanks for posting the link to the downloadable version. I was planning to hunt for that, and I just ran across your post. 🙂

Gianluca Sartori (2/28/2012)

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If the two database have to actually "talk" to each other, you need to use one among:

1) Linked Servers

2) Ad-hoc datasources (OPENROWSET, OPENDATASOURCE)

3) CLR procedures

4) ETL (SSIS or...