This is most perplexing.<BR><BR>I have a DEV and PROD server.<BR><BR>My DEV server connects to a linked server just fine.<BR><BR>However, my PROD server FAILS to connect.<BR><BR>I went into DEV with ...

So you decided to set up log shipping in order to establish a failover server, but what's next? Log shipping only takes care of keeping a user database in sync from one server to the other. In the ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...