I'd agree with Jamie's advice. If you are getting multiple backups, something else is happening.

Are both backups at the same time? I might run Profiler at the time of the...

Logged this as a bug. Hopefully it will get handled soon.

the other thing you can do is create a stored procedure to run this proc with some likely parameters. Then mark that as a startup procedure and have it run...

How about advanced pork chop aiming strategies for maximum developer damage?

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,...

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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...