Thanks and good post as well. And I hope your daughter is right.

Jereme,

Congrats!!!

If you don't have an idea of what is "normal" for your system, then there's no way of knowing if this is a good number or not. I wouldn't worry...

Has the server been rebooted?

I've used multiple NICs and IPs several times and it's worked fine. I don't think I've changed the server network utility, but can't remember.

I'm not sure a RAM disk is supported for Tempdb, but I know some people have done it. It should definitely help your queries since lots of temp operations in...

That isn't right. If anything, recreating indexes might cause more log space to be used.

Be sure the network people are backing up the log. Backing up the database is not...

Please double check that the job hasn't changed. You might not have changed something, but someone else might have. Also, check disk space and Mohammed's suggestions.

IS SQL Server not listening on this port, meaning you can't connect? Or does it now show in netstat?

If you haven't restarted SQL Server, it might not have picked up...

Actually JDE went to an even better solution shortly before they were purchsed. We built images on a SAN and had each client connect to a LUN there. They could...

To handle individual tables, you can rebuild the clustered index, which will remove the data around and reassemble it with less fragmentation. However, you want some fragmentation in the tables....

It's definitely IO. Is this SQL 2000 or 7? 7 will be worse, but in either case, you can make the change in EM and then hit the "script button"...

When you see the "Please Log In", have you tried F5?

I never have an issue in Firefox or IE 6 on this machine. Need to check IE 7 on the...

Can you clarify what you need to store and where it comes from? Is it the value inside the page somewhere? If so, you need a parser to parse the...

You might want to check out more of a coding site for this. Like http://www.4guysfromrolla.com.

The other thing is I've used the free ASPEMail component that seems to work better for...

Check this out:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones/20010424135929_1.asp

Charindex or patindex will work.