here possibly could be stored procedures or system elements left, but if you have removed replication, that doesn't matter. It won't impact your server instance.

Is that name related in any way to your company? If not, you are likely having someone probing for a SQL Server. I'd agree that you need to backtrack this...

Please don't cross post.

Answer here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic760825-146-1.aspx

Nicole, I'd be curious what you thought of the e-ink. If you go to a Borders or a Target, you can see the Sony reader. Spend 15 minutes there, and...

I'd go with Ken's suggestion. I would either disable automatic failover, or not set it up.

Data Compare from Red Gate will help if you need to sort things out.

Assuming the machines are patched, and that you control changes pushed from dev machines to the dev server, I don't think there's an issue. Not fundamentally different from a server,...

A good tutorial

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2009/01/30/an-introduction-to-the-ssis-expression-language.aspx

If you run the SELECT, does it return each db once?

I'd add some logging, or SELECT the backup statement instead of running it to see what happens. It looks fine,...

You are welcome, and happy to help. If you have more questions, or just want to run something by us, feel free.

The client software shouldn't know, or care, about if they're on the primary or mirror. If you are using updated ADO or SNAC clients, then you put in the mirror...

You can mirror multiple databases. If you have them in high availability mode, they'll stay in sync. Why won't this work for you?

No idea, and while you can ask the vendor, I think you'd have to test this exhaustively. There are some new technologies that might make this work.

One note is that...

That link is a good start, but you really ought to pick up a book on database design. It's one of those things that if you don't know how to...

The idea of a system to uniquely identify people is both scary and comforting. I get mistaken for other people regularly, so I'd like to differentiate. However, I also like...