Too early to tell Wesley. We just had the hardware looked at this weekend when the machine blue screened. If there are any changes I'll let you know.

Bob

I have the alerts set so that when someone posts to the thread I get an email. I'm afraid that since there had been a lack of posts I let...

Okay folks I think we've been concentrating on just ETL but some research done last night showed a significant slowdown with some standard SQL reindexing too. I'd be interested...

Well I got excited there for a minute Gift but after looking at my "add remove programs" I'm only at .Net Framework 2 SP1. And I'm on HP hardware.

But...

I also have a tier one application that has a process that runs nightly that is doing nothing more exciting than import, export, insert and updates in a nightly process...

Just curious about your comment about electric heat.

I don't understand if I generate my own electricity why shouldn't I heat with it?

Hey Old Hand,

The referenced link in the question reference http://support.microsoft.com/kb/171224

says that:

APPLIES TO

Microsoft SQL Server 6.0 Standard Edition

Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Standard Edition

But in your article you attribute the...

I changed the connetion type from an ADO.Net connection and cleared off a larger volumn for the query cache and it got further but so far we've not gotten all...

I'm curious what you deleted. I'm trying to move about a 300 Gig table from Oracle into my SQL Server 2005 data warehouse and get the same error after...

mbricker (7/24/2008)

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From a SQL Server standpoint, our most worked server is a SS2000 installation running 91 databases on two virtual servers configured as an active/passive cluster. Works great.

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Help me to...

Cost of VM? On several engagements I've been on when the VM vendor states how much cash you'll save they don't mention anything about licensing costs. Or what...

I got thrown off too.

But I'll chime in with a "Nice Question" and a Better answer. Way to set the bar!:smooooth:

What was that thread? We're being asked right now the same thing. So if someone else has already gone through this I'd appreciate the knowlege share.

Thanks

How about something like the new gps chip that's in a climber jacket for the folks fighting wildfires. Synch that up to a real time satellite and when a...

How about a GPS type system that would track the physical location of where your children, grandparents, aged alzheimer afflicted relatives, non-violent criminals etc. are located via the GPS chip...