Can you post a link for that?

You could kind of get around this with a snapshot and then bcp out data/script schema, but I'm not sure that's what you want.

The standby is the backup, just...

You might want to explain a little more what you want as well as the DDL and samples. Show the output samples as well.

If you need a number of days,...

a few links: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181149.aspx

Log shipping tables in here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa260604(SQL.80).aspx

Slip in the answer reasoning. Must be according to the reference.

sorry to hear about your issues, and glad it's working. It is frustrating and I was cursing Toshiba when mine died, but it was frustration and I know it wasn't...

bob, I'd still prefer you ask them to try and solve it, or post some work. However that's not a bad way to ask for them to clean up their...

How are you solving it? And what are you solving?

You need to give a bit more detail about how you want to transform the tables into other data, and...

also, please try to write a query, or show us some effort. We don't want to do your work or answer your homework. We can help, but you need to...

you mention running a table, but that doesn't make sense. How do you want to consume this data or store it? What's the point?

That's up to you. If you set it to simple, then the log space is still required (depending on how much space is needed for that operation), but it's cleared...

John, Thanks for the update.

An agenda is key, but it's also the leader to make sure that you work to the agenda and don't get off topic. I've seen too many status meetings degenerate...

The logging is trivial to set up in the plan, and there is a task to delete old logs after xx days.

You should have this running. It's not a big...

There's a fundamental difference between a hard drive failing and the laptop being disposable.

My 18 month old Toshiba had a drive start to fail. I replaced it, working fine so...