Sounds like connectivity issues.

If you remote to the server with this account, does a local SSMS install run better? Have you tried another workstation with your account to eliminate machine...

Hope things go well, Barry, and she does well.

Hopefully this thread won't go too crazy without you.

Glad you liked it, and I think we need to figure out how to address our leadership issues in IT, and elsewhere.

The "use it like a book" has been here before. And in this case, it's like a lot of licensing I had early in the Netware / Win 31 era...

Sorry, a publishing issue. I will re-run this editorial on Friday.

You also need space for an error log. Not much, but if the disk is full...

For the email solution, we run a .NET app here to send the mail, offloading the load of XP_sendmail from SQL Server. We grab a bunch of items to send...

I agree the wording was a little funny. It has been changed and points awarded back.

There is no decrypt function in SQL Server 2005.

If you have this function, someone has added to your server. We have no way of determining what is in the DLL.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189826(SQL.90).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510741.aspx

There's really nothing you can do to get to a wide audience on Dice/monster (where I'd look) and then limit responses. Even going through a recruiter, who charges you 20-30%,...

If the OS team is comfortable, and drive letters are the same, you should be fine.

Backup, be sure you're covered, and I'm sure things will be OK.

You can't duplicate the scale and speed up multiple aggregations across different measures and dimensions. They cube pre-processes this, often from thousands or millions, or rows, and retrieves the results...

SQL doesn't care about IP, network, etc. It does care about local paths, as those are how it finds the database files. If those change, you can fix things.

What you...

I think he means interaction issues, issues conflicting between firmware and the install.

Mirroring shouldn't be affected by log backups. If mirroring pauses, however, then it can affect the log. It can't be cleared until those entries are moved to the mirror.