I don't think you have updatable subscribers with log shipping. That's with replication.

Both mirroring and log shipping work in similar fashions, by applying transactions to the secondary server. Mirroring allows...

Paul's posted here as well and his blog is here:http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/

I pinged him with this thread, so you may see a response here.

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I'm actually going to Cambridge for a Red Gate visit, and not sure I'll spend any time in London. Out...

I'm not sure of where you could get the DTS internals, but one thing that might help is to save as a "VB File" and then execute it in a...

You can set them to auto-close if you think they aren't being used and then if they get accessed, the log will reflect it opening. Don't do this for systems...

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I don't. I think the control in IE can format cleaner, but the Firefox one is generic.

Yeah, yeah, I can't type. I'm sure Phil has a few of those in his past as well . I got notified yesterday that...

Not bad. That's an interesting idea. We're rewritting things and looking at some new HTML editors. Not sure we can get this in there, but I'll pass it along.

Actually check her bio. She was an actress on a British soap for awhile. I'm going to the UK this summer, so I'll see for myself.

Roger,

Thanks for the input and I appreciate someone with some experience in this area giving feedback. I'm not really convinced, but you raise some great points.

There are lots of scripts on the site here that you can search. You run the BACKUP TRANSACTION command to do the backup. You can schedule this to run in...

If you did it in the EM editor, I don't think you can do that in SSMS. UPDATE is the way to do this.

Be careful of multiple instances. It can separate out tempdb, which can be a point of contention, but it can also require more memory that you need to set for...

I sent this on to the author. My guess is the algorithms or the seed are slightly different.