Clustering can be complicated and I'm not sure how many people would have encountered this. If this isn't critical data and you have backups, or can afford delays or losses,...

do you mean from the Windows DHCP log? What's the format? I'm guessng it's text. SSIS might be the best solution to automate this. Build a package that reads the...

That's it? I wear you two out on the Financial Crisis poll 🙂

One thing I like, and I'd urge those in the US to support is http://bailoutsleuth.com/ from Mark Cuban. Write your representatives, state and federal, and let them know they have...

Good information above.

When you fetch data from a cursor, you're grabbing a row. That returns a status code (OK, end of cursor, etc) and you check fetch_status to determine if...

And be sure the SQL Server is running.

I'd also try some pings/odbcpings from the new client to see if it can connect to the server.

check the error log and see what happened, but my guess is that you will have to drop the snapshot and recreate it.

I was going to suggest what Perry mentioned.

Have you tried multiple Windows users?

Thanks for the note.

Were both the Agent service account and SQL Server service account on the same domain?

I'd pull out a sample of the strange rows, and then convert each byte to its ASCII value. From there you might see some pattern that is causing issues and...

Kevin,

Agree with you here, but we're human and fallible. We make mistakes, sometimes we're malicious, though I hope we're more often respectful of others.

If inventory is an issue, I might do it the way you have listed, but do you not backorder things?

If there's an issue with payment do you want to delete...

Using this?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=31711D5D-725C-4AFA-9D65-E4465CDFF1E7&displaylang=en

I think detach/attach would have been the easy thing to do here.

I'm not sure what you can do now. Can you access the database? Is it online?

I think that there...

Doesn't matter. Just get them both done.