Well besides the obvious reason that all the cool DBAs have iPads.

I guess the best way an iPad could help me do my job is the small, lightweight,...

I know it makes the DBA look bad, but yeah we have a lot of unplanned downtimes of production systems. Bear in mind that we have over 1600 databases...

You might try checking to see if named pipes is enabled as a client protocol in sql server configuration manager on both nodes of the cluster. Then try your...