Express is replacing MSDE. Here's the datasheet: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/express/

Logs are usually in /program files/microsoft sql server/msql/logs. check there or the Windows Event log for details on why it won't start.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/bknight/stepbystepclustering.asp

Not sure what the criteria is, but I've used underscores with no issues. Tried running it all together, no separators?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones/auditingyoursqlserverpart4selectiveauditing.asp

Links to the other 3 parts.

If 8000 users access the servers, you'd license on a per seat basis and license 8000 users. The CAL is by user, not workstation or app.

If you have significantly less...

Beware that the values are not necessarily unqiue. If you delete a partial range and reset the identity values, then you may or may not overwrite other values. Also, if...

What do you mean calculate performance?

Not sure what you mean here. Are you looking for information on reading execution plans?

Briscoe is correct, so I will award the points back. Also I will correct the question to say "numeric".

Steve

You cannot take a backup that includes only tables and I'm not sure what you are trying to do? Are you looking to make periodic backups? Is your app going...

Joe,

What do you mean disable? Are you trying to test a restore of Master?

I would assume you'd join the TOrderDetail to the TOrder based on the OrderID column.

These are hard to track down. The query plan is built based on conditions on the server at the time it's compiled. Have you checked to be sure the indexes...

Not sure about the buffer size. Haven't worked with it. The batch size, however, can prevent the logs from filling. It tells the package what size of (Rows) to insert...