Drop them

Why would you want to? Updte them, I mean. They are not "rebuilt" on updates.

And here:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/rc

You're having network issues. The backup routine is very intolerant of any network latency. Backup to the local drive and the move it to the shared drive.

Brian Knight has some articles on clustering on this site. As far as load balancing, I'm assuming you're active/active and you are looking to move some dbs to each server...

I hate applications like this. , my buddy builds an accounting app like this and I always complain about this crap. He says they...

SELECT a.o_id

 , a.o_tmst

 , a.from_dept

 , a.to_dept

 , b.to_dept

 from dummy a

 inner join dummy b

  on a.o_id = b.o_id

 where b.o_tmst = ( select max( o_tmst)

       from dummy c

       where c.o_tmst < a.o_tmst

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I thought you had to have admin rights on the box. Are you sure these people don't have rights to stop/start services?

Some other threads:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?messageid=120949

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?messageid=111280

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/chedgate/fragmentation101.asp

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/ckempster/mappingdatabasefileobjectsandfragmentation.asp

David, I assume you'd move it like you'd move any of the system dbs. Is this moving to a new location on the same server? Or a new server?

MS Ref:...

As mentioned above, probably you are specifying NULL for the identity. Don't do that, just ignore it like it didn't exist.

you might want to use replicaiton instead.

Use this to build the loops

declare @i int, @j-2 int

select @i = 1

while @i < 36

 begin

 if @i < 27

  select @j-2 = @i + 64

 else

  select @j-2 = @i + 48 -...

Do they get this when EM starts? Perhaps they do not have master access?

Did you change any other parameters?

Like the -d?

I'm sure you can create an unattended installation file with the setup. BOL has instructions:

search: Performing an Unattended Installation