OK Steve, and anyone else who is interested, it went well today (Monday). There were a few issues, but they were all related to ODBC connections for reports; nothing...

I won't really know until Monday when our users return to work. My tests indicate that the emergency deleting of the SQL...

Thank you, George. In the "heat of the battle" it is easy to forget the basics and just do things in a rush to get other things working.

Steve Jones - Editor (7/7/2008)

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Assemblies can be flaky if they're 32bit, SQLMail doesn't work, etc. There are potential issues, but if you have a simple db setup, then you should...

Service pack 2 and "cu6". What's cu6?

Really, Gail? I would have thought there would have been some difference. Is it all within the SQL Server executable, then? I guess it must be.

Thank you.

Ah, that is good to know, rbarry, about the Browser service. So, if it were running, then I could have browsed to my local instance. Thank you for...

Jeffrey Williams (6/27/2008)

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Since this is the default instance, you can type in one of the following to connect:

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(local)

localhost

computername

Another option is to browse for more in the drop-down. That should...

I cannot connect to the default instance, because it does not show up in the dropdown as a database to connect to in SSMS. So, there's no error...

vidhya sagar (6/25/2008)

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[font="Verdana"]Can you check in SQL Server configuration manager whether the below service exists?

SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)

I think both the instances in on same port, create alias receptively and then...

Oh, I've gotta order me, maybe a hundred of them! 😉

And if, at the Run prompt, it cannot find SSMS when I enter SqlWB, then I can conclude that I do not have it.

Correct?

Jason,

I am not familiar with Ft. Myers, where is that?  And more importantly, how long is this contract good for?

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Nevermind, I just went to the URL you listed and found...