Actually Beta results usually take weeks. I still don't have mine from early Dec, although my mail usually is slow.

Chris makes some great points and I think there should be some recourse when an application doesn't do what it promises.

However I think there is also a question of scale....

That's strange. Have you gone here and picked other questions?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/testcenter/qod.asp

Maybe I should request that!!!!

Moving cabinets could be a nice part time job

I'd like to, but my wife will get upset

I'll drop a picture on the blog (http://sqlservercentral.com/cs/blogs/steve_jones/default.aspx)

Jake,

I think you hit it on the head. The MS product was different, but interesting. The instability was mostly on OS2 and when we hit OS2 2.1, it ran better.

However,...

Backup restore is the lowest impact option. Detach works as well.

don't mess with DTS, replication,etc.

Be sure you move logins and I'd include msdb in the backup/restore process. search sp_help_revlogin...

Chris,

I'm sure you do a good job, or your clients would not be happy. But bug-free? c'mon, get real. If a few hundred thousand people started hitting your software would...

It could be having an issue with the secure channel. I've seen auth problems like this, but I can't remember exactly which utility resets this.

It happens sometimes, but I try to watch the site throughout the day and see if there are issues. We do have performance problems at times, but they are very...

If you expect bug free software, you're in the wrong business. Every software has bugs, big or small company. And most of them have security issues. Mostly it's because the...

Steve,

That sucks. I think I'm ok as the old owners tried to subdivide off 4 7acre lots last year with the county and got rejected. So I'd guess the county...

Thanks and I think I'm almost ready. Been packing for 4 weeks, heck, only decided to move 5 ago , and two bedrooms, the...

FallenAngel,

Sounds like you had a bad time there, and I appreciate you don't like the company or job. And I'm not censoring your remarks.

But I am doubtful this is the...

Oracle is more optimized to work with cursors whereas SQL Server is not. Under any kind of load, a set based operation will vastly outperform a cursor based one on...