[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Not yet.

Hey...I'm all for it if Mac can do all the replicating that needs to be done without using all of the hoops Microsoft requires....VDS, VSS and the rest of it.

MS has a hard limit on the length of time a SQL or Exchange database can be frozen by any replication application using VSS....10 seconds. that's it. 10 seconds to freeze the DB and use the Volume Shadowcopy Service to take a snap shot of the database. If it doesn't get done in 10 seconds, VSS takes over and fails the replication. Period.
I hate that crap.

[MarkL]

I'm not a SQL guy, but my team is responsible for the server hardware, and it seems that nobody, including Microsoft can figure out the memory leak problems we're having on 64bit Win2k3 and 64bit SQL2k5. We've got an HP DL386 with dual Opterons and 32GB of RAM, and the system is constantly running out of RAM. While similar databases are running on 32bit platforms with 12GB of RAM.

ARGH!!!!!

Of course the software guys are saying that obviously 32GB of RAM isn't enough... As if you could cure a memory leak by adding memory!

Mark