OK, the author (me), can't type. 😛

Fixed

banwidth, row size, no way to know.

Send 1000 records as a test. Extrapolate.

This isn't really the place for this, and we don't want .SQLs up there for safety.

Adam, really you should submit this as a script, and there are comment sections for...

Microsoft licenses and checks sockets, not cores. SQL will use all 8 cores, you'll need 2CPU licenses if you go that way.

Good luck and let us know if it works!

You should read about backup and recovery in Books Online or on this site. We have a backup and recovery section in the articles section:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles/Backup+and+Recovery/

There is a lot to understand...

Transactional is just that, replication by transaction. You can slow it down, but it works fine for continuous transactions as well.

Always a bandwidth/resource issue, but if you have enough, it...

Had no problems here. I grabbed the ISO, captured as the CD drive in a VM, and the install ran with no issues.

When in doubt, VM 😉

Hard to know exactly what might not work. Not sure it's been exercised enough, but most things should work.

Have you searched for the file across all drives on the file system? Checked the Recycle bin?

You have mismatched parens, one in the wrong place, or bad code to one side of the parens. Go through the code section by section, look for line 47 and...

Juan,

It's a poor habit to get into. Even with a firewall, what if that changes? What if you take your machine to another location to deploy something? What if a...

You need to learn more about how SQL Server handles replication before you would know what the equivalent is from Oracle. SQL Server has bi-directional transactional replication and merge replication....

If you have more trouble, please post what you are trying to do and show some work.

Please post in the appropriate forum. Moved to T-SQL