+1. Go with release order. No matter how bad #1 is, it's part of the series. And part of numerous jokes...

I've never tried it, but I thought that the master db was aware of the cluster, and if you are trying to replace a non-clustered master with a clustered master,...

The background thread only runs to do the encryption. Once that is finished, it is not spawned again. All encryption/decryption is then part of the normal I/O read/write processes.

addieleman (3/14/2012)

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The last sentence: However I think lots of management might prefer in-house infrastructure for a simple reason: it gives them a specific neck to choke, and possibly replace, when...

If you read the update and root cause analysis, this wasn't a redundancy issue. It was caused by a software bug, one that couldn't be fixed by more hardware. Developers...

I'd like to think that we aren't "parenting" newbies like this: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304450004577277482565674646.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet (about 15 paras in)

Once you attach to 2008, you can run the Upgrade Advisor, which should catch things.

The 2012 version of UA

Lynn Pettis (3/13/2012)

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Stefan Krzywicki (3/13/2012)

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GSquared (3/13/2012)

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Gianluca Sartori (3/13/2012)

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I don't know who you're talking about. 😉

No, seriously, you'd better ignore him.

A wise man once told me that the only person in...

GSquared (3/13/2012)

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I have a problem with ignoring him, same as I have a problem with anyone giving bad advice. In his case, it's amplified because he does have a...

And backups, good, solid backups.

Make sure you script as much stuff as possible if the uninstall/reinstall flakes. You'll want it all handy.

Good luck, then, and an outage is probably the best thing to do.

Please let us know. That's a little strange. Usually you change from full to simple for some things and then back.

you don't necessarily need to uninstall 2008. You could install 2012 on another machine, under another name, and then do a name change of the host and the SQL instance.

Identities are managed on each server. If someone adds a row to the subscriber, they can use an integer that the publisher expects to have available. If you have identities...

Short answer, not centrally. You can make an alias on client machines and point that to a particular server/port, but really you don't want to be addressing clients with the...