That's amazing. I would think that if you needed help they'd call someone in anytime day or night. However you did say they were there on request. At least that's...

You can search information_schema.columns in both systems, order by name, and the compare to see which columns are in the tables, or which ones aren't.

Then you can use an ALTER...

Don't cross post: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic598854-361-1.aspx?Update=1

There isn't a set hardware configuration.

How are you partitioning? What is the purpose? There isn't a way to answer a general question like this because it depends on how...

I think you have some HTML that's being seen as code and not a post.

If you want to delete everything after say, [*---, then you search for that in charindex,...

You would need to run a tail log backup. The problem is I'm not sure how you will run one if you deleted the MDF.

You can recover to 3:00 using...

Gail gives you the right idea. Create logins on the principal, script out and xfer to the mirror. Changes permissions/users only on the principal

No support on weekends? Is this in the US?

That doesn't sound right. Polyserve was a small company before HP bought them, but I can't believe they don't provide support on...

You can't avoid index fragmentation unless you don't change data. Sooner or later with deletes or page splits you'll get fragmentation. The thing to do is monitor it (as shown...

There shouldn't be restrictions, but there could be some things that don't work. My Query Analyzer connects, but because it makes some calls that aren't supported, the Object Browser doesn't...

The first command runs a backup to a UNC device, appending backups to the same file (listed there). This is not recommended for a couple reasons

- The backup across the...

Once the logins are moved, if you repeat the process, they will remain there (assuming you're not messing with the master database). You will still need to use sp_change_users_login to...

Someone must have altered them somehow and not restarted the server. Were there any trace flags set on the service startup?

You can move the files back using the process here:...

You could search through syscomments for "select *" as a key phrase in those objects that are views.

You need a trace to see what activity is taking place. The log grows when any transactions are running, including index rebuilds, DBCC, etc. Something is happening. Check jobs as...