I think you're confused a little on log shipping.

The way log shipping works on the primary

- Make a full backup

- Make log backups

- Make periodic full backups

It just runs.

On the...

It could. There's a lot of different ways that SANs work. You can contact your vendor, but if the drives aren't set for dynamic expansion, you might need to bounce...

To update a database, attach (or restore) the files on the higher version server. If you are looking to upgrade your entire instance, then run the Upgrade Advisor, and then...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174763.aspx

I don't want a cookie. Not really my thing.

Now this....

Why not take your full backup and restore it on the remote instance? Depending on activity, the VSS service can be problematic. You are attempting to freeze two files and...

All good suggestions. ultimately you cannot start a remote job from your local SQL Server instance without opening a connection on the other instance. Your instance has no control over...

If you don't need this in a single transaction, you can try updating batches of rows. Sometimes that is quicker than one large update.

Can you post the error?

Mean editor?

Too slow! Removing a lot of SPAM this morning, and disabling some accounts.

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I believe when you run this that the SQL Server service account might need rights to the destination.

Removed. Not likely to get responses now.

Merge or Bidirectional transactional will help. However you might end up spending a lot of time trying to resolve conflicts and issues. Are you talking about moving some tables and/or...