Named pipes is indeed an older technology and are faster because no encryption is used... Hence it is less secure than the use of TCP/IP

Also the use of named pipes...

Ok, I'll keep this as an option, we hoped for a more siplistic solution:-)

Thanks anyway...

We use outlook on every SQLServer and it works fine.

I saw you were using a pst-file, this means you are using a personal store so I asume you use a...

For what purpose are you using them? Do you use them to check your errorlog for certain entries or can you view and/or modify your transaction log?

OK Thanks, I can give this advice to our customer.

We deliver support for a company where dumb users develop bussiness critical applications in Access.

And when the problems arrise, we have...

Oh boy I'm happy:-)

This was more than I expected.

Thanks guys...

I tried them but they asume everybody knows all DDL commands.

So i'll rephrase: does anyone have a list with all the DDL commands?

Regards