Aye, me too. I'll start a Fantasy Football 2012 thread. Looking forward to playing again with y'all.

Matt Cain throws the first perfect game in Giants history! Freakin' awesome...

Thanks for the question, Nakul.

The muscles on the front of your pelvis shorten when you sit and if you do nothing but sit all the time, they will get used to being short and...

When asked this question I always try and point someone to the practical application of the knowledge. Here are the practical steps I've always suggested, you can google/read a...

A stab in the dark, but does it have something to do with Ownership Chaining (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188676(SQL.105).aspx)?

Your profiler trace should tell you if the data is being called through a view...

Thanks for the question.

Heh...here...

I enjoy a 'Clausthaler' every so often. I bet I'm one of the few on this site.

Sorry that I don't have a direct answer, but you may try using the Attunity drivers to connect with Oracle:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee470675(v=sql.100).aspx

Here's an excerpt from that page talking about using BIDS and...

Thanks for the question, good reinforcement.

This may help:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms366348(v=sql.100).aspx

I try and reply to stuff I have experience with because I've learned a lot from this site, also...a sort of "pay it forward" type of thing.

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If everyone acted this...

Yeah, we're on the same page. But a couple of things:

If you like, you can test your failover by issuing the 'SET PARTNER FAILOVER' command on ServerA, instead of...

The first command:

ALTER DATABASE [yourDatabase]

SET PARTNER FAILOVER

GO

should be run on your current PRINCIPAL (which is your desired MIRROR, if I understood correctly). It will set your primary instance back...