SQL Express is feature-lite, so I would hazard a guess that you couldn't do it directly.

I was mooching about over some StreamInsight stuff the other day. Have you had a...

I really like PBM, but....

I would suggest that the reason there isn't already a user-group / forum / topic /whatever for it is that it's not used widely enough in...

Personally, I'm not sure that one is required. PBM should really be called 'Policy Exception Reporting and Alerting'.

That said, it would be a great tool if it only worked...

I've come across this a few times and it's usually down to the authentication process.

Can you ask them to run the following code themselves (assuming they have access via SSMS)...

That must be why Dell (who acquired Quest a while back) have added it to their latest LiteSpeed offering, NetVault LiteSpeed for SQL Server. 🙂 Not sure if it's enough...

I've used LiteSpeed for several years now, but since SQL2008, I've always favoured native compression over 3rd Party tools. In some environments, LiteSpeed will slow to a crawl if there...

If you're connecting to SQL 2005, sometimes you get this when you're network admin has blocked UDP 1434 as protection against the SQLSlammer worm.

..and that would happen even if the...

Have you restarted either the instance or SQL Agent ? And confirmed that the proxy account still hase the requisite OS and SQL permissions ?

Maybe SQLAgent is running on cached...

Given that your subscriber only needs refreshing twice a day, are you sure that replication is the right option, since it's giving you so much trouble ? 🙂

Have you considered...

Looks like this is way way down in the undocumented hidden stored procs that do replication.

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This calls [font="Courier New"]sys.sp_MSrepl_articlecolumn[/font]...

Could you post a relevant section of the error message ? The only thing I can think is that your source database has a user-defined datatype called DATE (but to...

What's the purpose of the warm standby ? Clustering may be your best bet if it's to protect against hardware failure, but I can't see how you could protect against...

Agreed - It looks like your logic gets you something which isn't possible. Hence the error 🙂

If you have backup compression as an option, that may prove quicker to move to the new server and restore than copying the data files. Either way, backup / restore...

One approach would be to create an new FILEGROUP on the spare disk, add the .ndf to that, and move over some of your tables to the new filegroup.

I'm not...