The reason WE are forcing the issue to upgrade is that we don't want to be caught running an unsupported version of software. 99% of the time it won't...

Observation: I find it interesting how many systems people have that are still on SQL2000... Looking into the future how difficult will it be to justify going from...

We have about 40% of all of our production databases still on SQL2000 and two are the biggest systems. One of them the rollout to our first 7 stores...

Thanks a million. I just implemented this code for two jobs!

I have NEVER liked the DH personally. I am sure the players union will get it in the NL eventually though.

I already have us some tickets to Red's home games from the first day they put them on sale. Can't wait for warm weather to return to Ohio! ...

I listened to the first two Red's Spring Training games over the weekend.... nice to hear baseball on the radio again.

One we have right now has 16 cores..... now THAT would be expensive!

I have to say I don't know all of the details of all of the new features as of yet. However, for the common, basic SQL Server install that doesn't...

Yep. We do the same thing. However, some need to be behind the DMZ, on a different domain for our stores, be at a different version or SP...

Yea, I hear you. The powers at be keep talking about the # of servers and to consolidate and then we keep getting new apps that require another server...

I never thought about scripting it out and just running the scripts. I have the email operators scripted out though.

Well, I knew it was probably something simple. I have messed around with it for about 30 minutes, then deleted the mail profile and messed around with that and...

No question is stupid... AND you my friend found the issue. Dang! I missed doing that step.

Thanks a million!

You would be best served to use SQL2008R2 SP1. It is stable and used by many, many companies. SQL2012 will be out soon but it is anyones best...