I have a SQL 2000 Ent server cluster with current drives in place and
working.  We are adding two new drives from a new SAN enclosure.  The server
sees the drives fine.  I have added the drives into the depenecy list under
the SQL server listing under the "SQL group" in cluster ...

Hi all.  My first time posting to this newsgroup, but I think I am in the
right place.  I am in the discovery stage of building a web site that we
anticipate will have a large amount of traffic.  Our design platform is
Windows and Microsoft SQL and the goal is to have web sites ...

Is there an easy way to rename the Cluster Server Name ?
What about renaming the underlying physical nodes as well ?
Can this easily be done or does this call for an entire Cluster rebuild ?
Using SQL 2K and Windows 2003

The basics
Win2k Enterprise
SQL 2005 Enterprise
2 node cluster, single instance.

We have a two node, single instance SQL Server 2000 cluster.  If I do an
in-place upgrade to 2005, will it replace the binaries on both nodes, or must
I run the upgrade on each node?

We are moving away from our existing Windows 2003 cluster to virtual
servers.
Is it possible to move the existing SQL 2000 database from the
clustered environment to a new default instance on a stand alone

Are there any cluster aware anti virus products that dont cause problems
such as the ones outlined in KB250355
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/250355 ?? I dont want to run
with no anti virus. Thanks

we have  a win2000 adv cluster with sql server 2000 ent.
last time i had to move resources from active node to passive node, i
had big troubles.
Moving groups caused many sql db files damaged, having db marked

When makes an application require the use of a default SQL instance versus
named instances? If named instances are allowed with an application, how
does one specify the specific instance to use?

I have a cluster active/Pasive with windows 2000 profesional advanced
Server.
I have installed SQL Server SP3.
After an update of drivers for HBA, when i restar the computer i obtain a

I have to add SAN space to an existing cluster.  what are the steps?
thanks

re: SQL Server 2005, SP1
I set up Database Mail on a clustered server using the db mail wizard
in Management Studio. I set up an operator using a mail group. The test
email worked fine. I also restarted the SQL Server Agent on node 1 of

i have a table with 10,000,000,000 records and i need Select and Insert many
records from or into this table in less than one second.
i can't buy a very expensive hardware(Server) for this SQL Server 2005
but i can buy many medium price hardwares(Servers) for this SQL Server

On one of our active nodes we cannot start the configuration manager but we
can start management studio.
We get the error message "Connection to target machine cannot be made in a
timely fashion".  Any ideas on what causes this and how to fix?

Does it matter on the type of domain group to create; Domail Local, Global,
Universal.
Does it matter where in the AD it resides, under departmental OU's or highe.