Congrats on passing the knowledge exam. Sorry the lab was a hassle. Good luck in the future.

Greg Edwards-268690 (4/25/2012)

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VM is wonderful until you hit a resource constraint. Then you find out how much they really know about what they have done. Very different to trouble shoot...

I think you need to rewrite this to explain it a little better. You are rambling a bit in the explanation of what you want to occur and it's not...

Nothing moves user accounts over. Clustering is essentially pointing two servers to the same set of physical data, but if there's a disk issue, you have no failover, only fail.

Mirroring...

These errors are conversion errors. Somewhere your data contains a value that is not compatible with the float type.

I don't see anything in that code that would cause it, so...

You might also look at SQLSentry's PErformance Advisor. Not sure if it does what you want, but it can be helpful in analyzing issues.

No matter which tool you use, ultimately...

GilaMonster (4/24/2012)

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#declare NewTopic;

Grant, you mentioned the other day that you'd finished the book "Temporary Duty" This one http://www.amazon.com/Temporary-Duty-ebook/dp/B00531CPHC/? Good? Recommended?

Looking for some good sci-fi again (space ships, interstellar travel, etc)....

stevemc (4/24/2012)

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I once worked briefly at the Trojan nuclear power plant in Oregon; no issues with power there. The office was in the shadow if the cooling tower. ...

Yes, let him go to SO and argue there.

Gilamonster has a good summary. There are differences where one works and the other doesn't, and places where it doesn't matter too much which one you use.

It pays to learn...

I was thinking the built in WMI one. The File Watcher would be a separate article (also would be good). One could build on the other.

I don't have a reference that does this exactly, but here are a few things to get you started in PBM:

Video on policies: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/64789/

Standardization Article: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Policy+Based+Management+%28PBM%29/88486/

Basically you'd want to...

john barnett (4/24/2012)

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Steve - you don't buy the software. What you buy is a license to use the software in accordance with the terms and conditions in the accompanying license...

jay-h (4/24/2012)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/23/2012)

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djackson 22568 (4/23/2012)

I'm not sure I want a law enforcement official suggesting that drugs are acceptable, or drinking and driving isn't a big...

Nice job, Ryan.