I think all of us have done some of this with root cause analysis or backtracking through logs to find out what happened. Data has an interesting aspect in that...

Are you connecting via named pipes? Check your client config.

You want to have a specific port set for each instance and then use that in your registration on the client....

It sounds like it just flaked out. AFAIK, the restore with standby should not take much longer than a restore with norecovery.

Perhaps you have transactions open in the secondary database...

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...