Thanks for the quick reply. I will try that.

I have successfully installed named instance with no errors so far and I can see named instance from my pc on management studio.

After moving all databases from 2000 to 2005...

Try to use virtulization sofware like VMWare or Microsoft Virtual Server. It allows you to set up multiple clients and servers on one PC depending on how powerful is your...

Please refer to my previous post it was copied from template.ini file, but still have question on that.

cannot have dataloss , user will not be happy with t.

T1(1.5Mbs) act a  tunnel between two network.

we are gonig to redesign our network to make it one forest so T1...

What does the business require in terms of availability, data loss and recovery time?

--Are they happy losing a maximum on one hours worth of data? Are they happy to...

As of today design is not good and I want to make it better and I am starting from scratch.

What does the business require in terms of availability, data...

I am running SQL Server 2000 SP 3a. This is what I am doing. I have a test server with windows server 2003/ sql 2000 sp 3a and all the...

is this automatic?

I want to write a query so that when ever I get excel file (its going to be same file with additional data) I can just run the...

Acutally I did that but after I did that I went to check on D drive and no folder structer was created to store data (like ms sql data etc)?

And...

I went through the article but it does not explain what permission needs to be set. Any more help please!