Just got this email from someone in Ops:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39237341,00.htm
http://blogs.msdn.com/slavao/archive/2005/11/12/492119.aspx
Synopsis - Hyperthreading (Intel specific technology) can seriously impedes

I need help with a licensing question for 2005. Assuming two servers with two
processors each:
If I have one instance on Server A in an active/passive cluster with Server
B, my understanding is that I need licenses for two processors on  Server A)

Does anyone have any idea of what might be the issue?
I've tried everything but with no success. I'm getting the following error
every time I'm installing SQL 2000 on Active/Passive Win2003 Cluster. This
is first time install on a new 2 Windows 2003 Server.

First of all, excuse me if my English isn't too correct.
I need to install a portal infrastructure that was developed with ASP
and SQL Server. The system would like to be redundant and scalable.
To do that, I have in mind, the following diagram :

Hi
I have 2-node active/active cluster. I have installed 2 SQL instances (one
per node).
Now I want to install Analysis service in cluster for datawarehouse . I have

We have a 3 node active cluster with SQL.  FOr a short time (5-10mins) we get
alerted via NetIQ of these events:
->Failed to retrieve resource owner of MS DTC/MSCS_ResourceOwnerChange
->Failed to retrieve resource owner of MS DTC/The cluster resource could not

I there,
I want to upgrade a SQL active/ passive cluster from SQL SP3 to SP4. How can
I prevent end users and tools from connecting to the server during the
migration?

I'm planning a hardware upgrade of our active/active dual node Windows
2000 sql cluster. Hostnames and IP addresses will remain unchanged.
Here's a high level overview of my plan..
1. move all cluster groups/resources to node 2

I am aggregating 6-8 SQL Server 2000 databases to a cluster of SQL
Server consisting of two nodes, each with four 3.1GHz Xeon CPUs. How do
I estimate the memory requirement for each node? Do I simply add the
memory utilization of each SQL Server instance on each individual SQL

I assume this term is used for clustering all your Federated Server members.
- Does each node have a SQL Instance installed? If yes, I assume 1 virtual
instance of sql is treated as the main, and all federation members are
configured as linked servers.

I have moved our cluster SQL 2k server from a W2k cluster to a new w2k3 SP1
cluster server recently. After the move, I found two applications that use
MSDTC didn't work. I realized that I made a mistake when I setup the MSDTC, I
didn't enable network DTC access on both nodes ...

I am installing SQL Server 2005 RTM ent in a 2 node cluster
Details - Windows 2003 Ent, SP3, QUAD PIII, 6GB ram per node
Error Message: Setup failed to start on the remote machine. Check the task
scheduler log on the remote machine

Looking for quick answer. If we implement a 2 node cluster fora single SQL
database....do we need to buy two licenses of SQL enterprise. It will reside
on an active\passive cluster. Can I use SQL standard??
Dan

Hy all,
we want to setup a geographically distribuited cluster on which we want to
run sql server 2005...
Is it possible such a solution? If yes, where can I find an howto?

Sorry for the re-post.
In a clustered SQL Server 2005 environment you must assign SQL Server, Agent
and Full Text Search to domain groups.  These groups then appear in the Sys
Admin fixed role.  With that, anyone who can add members to groups in the