I'd actually go to the EMployers and Employees forum (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Forum334-1.aspx) and then there's a "Add Topic" button there at the top that you can use to start a new thread.

Terri, you might want to start a new thread on this as it's an interesting discussion.

Or if you'd like to write an article on your experiences after Katrina, I'd help...

William,

I tend to agree with you, but we need patches. More so, we need to make our voices heard that the patching needs to be better.

msdb you can restore from backup to get jobs, etc. Or you can script out jobs.

Script out logins. I'd search for sp_help_revlogin from MS and that will get you a...

Not supported:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sql_protocols/archive/2005/12/05/500013.aspx

The virtual server isn't local, it's shared among the nodes.

Steve,

I'd think replication here. If it's one way, then snapshot should work. If you need two way, merge will work, but you might want to hire someone that's an expert...

Call PSS. Sounds like something you'll need to dig into with them and I'd really want their blessing if there's a ahrdware issue.

It should work. Not sure about Outlook 2003 on NT, but otherwise install Outlook on the machine and log in as the SQL Server service account to set the profile...

Look in the SQLAgent section of BOL. You can add an alert for completion or failure of jobs.

How is Reporting Services configured? Is there a single login, perhaps in IIS, that is accessing the report server? Run a trace and see what account is attempting to log...

If you start from the command line (NET START), what does it say? Have you checked the Event log for errors.

Be sure that you have updated the startup parameters in...

Doh! Changed the answer and explanation, but didn't mark it as correct.

Re-awarding points again. That was my bad. Apologies all around.

I think that we should have some consistency as well, as Derek suggested. If that means all my T-SQL syntax needs to change, I'm ok with that. Probably easier for...

Thanks for the update. I'd forgotten about views not showing column changes .

I think lots of people post their comment without reading. No worries, glad to see them posting 😉

However I think I'll take a short moratorium on user questions. At least...