We also use sqlperf (logspace) to monitor logfiles.

Generally, if your datawear house doesn't have to be available 24 hours a day and can sustain the down time a mirrored backup isn't needed. You generally have to have...

A SAN(Storage Area Network) Is a collection of disk that can be accessed by multiple host. They usually split these disk up into groups to make RAID 5 or 1...

Not that I am aware of. Check out 2003 and see if it meets your needs. I know they have expanded the advanced offering.

Wes

BOL is correct as far as I know. Anything over 8 gig of ram requires datacenter

I would love to hear if it works or not.

Please post back your results!

Thanks,

Wes

I'm not sure how you would point a query down a network path. maybe setup an alias in DNS for the oracle server and setup a linked server on that...

Don't mess around. If you have a need to compress backups do it with sqllitespeed I've been running it on several boxes now and I love it. Much faster than...

If you detatch move the site and reattach and no traffic is hitting the old site you should be fine.

do a backup and restore is the best way to ensure that the database is the same. If you are going to have both host for a while you can...

There are tools out there to help with this task. SQLCompare is probably the most widely used one. It can do structure and data comparisons to help you sync the...

All connections will be reset when the cluster to fail over. Depending on the size of the sql server how much ram how big the tempdb is will effect the...

Whats funny is I use to be "the Dell guy" worked in enterprise server space for a couple of years.

Wes

One, If you bought them recently from Dell they are usually pretty good about getting you started. Two, IF this is using all SCSI make sure you have the correct...

I've had the same kinds of probems in other shops. Most of the time it takes a major screw up on a developers part to get management to lock everything...