GilaMonster (5/15/2009)

"In the jungle,

the mighty jungle..."

Thanks for the kind words. I was definitely a little melancholy the day I wrote this one.

Kind of funny that as I read the comments here I'm installing W2K8...

I always here it referred to as the Resource database, so I think it's getting straightened out.

If any of you talk to MS, I would like to know what they say to you about the licensing.

It makes sense that you would license logical procs, but only...

you can get logs from the package itself. The Agent log has no information in it.

I'd enable logging for the package and examine those files for more information about what...

Gail,

sorry to hear about that. I can sympathize a little. I had a car when I lived in San Diego that got broken into 3 times in less than a...

I'd look at VBScript, or perhaps adding Powershell to the servers, and using those to get the space. You can even insert the data into SQL Server from VBScript.

The FileSystemObject...

what have you changed? And how much data is being replicated?

It depends on the transactions, but in most replication scenarios I've had, where we're moving 2-3 tables, we have seconds...

Nice one, Larry.

Can you update is on what was the issue? Might help someone else down the road.

Which way? As I see it or Lynn?

I thought this came up in an MVP forum or call, that you have to license each logical proc that a VM accesses...

If the objects are there, either you restored the wrong backup, or you are misremembering which objects you created.

Or you can use a GUID in SQL Server with a default of NEWID()

There are a few near us as well. Haven't thought about it myself, but I see them doing open houses a couple times a year for kids to come by.

I...

Gail has great advice.

Longer passwords are better, but if they are in the dictionary, with any easy to remember substitution (such as zero for oh) then that's being built into...