Hello Steve,

is Microsoft going to buy Red Gate?!

regards,

Hans

Hi Steve,

Interesting editorial, this, as it connects failure to probability.

In the end, we all make up the statistics; I just finished 'The Black Swan' (not about the movie!) by...

Ok, thanks for the answers.

As there are quite a few clients involved I'll opt for the DNS change.

Thanks again to all for reading/replying this post.

regards,

Hans

Hello magasvs,

TCP/IP is enabled, Named Pipes is disabled, but no connection.

I have asked our windows admin for DNS forward alias (following Henrico's advice), see what he's coming up with.

thanks...

Yes, I used the configuration manager; when I tried to change the account, the configuation manager came back with an error message (WMI provider error [call to WMI provider error...

In the meantime, I found that I have to give NTFS Read&Execute permission on the MSSQL Binn folder, and full NTFS permission on the DATA and LOG folders if I...

I graduated in astronomy.

You think they will nail the Higgs-boson, up there at the LHC?

Yes, indeed!, You also?

I remember the rather awkward feeling when a physics professor explained that, had this 'constant' been slightly different, mankind (as we know it 🙂 ) would no...

137 is an odd answer, in more than one way actually...

regards,

Hans

Hi Andy,

Important topic indeed.

Recently I picked up a copy of a book from the 80's, called 'Is is worth dying for?', by Dr Robert Eliot.

I found it has not lost...

Thank you again for the swift reply Steve,

you saved the day!

regards,

Hans

Thank you for the swift reply Steve.

It actually triggered another question: can I install a 180-day evaluation version of SQL2008, and somehow activate that to a permanent version as soon...

Thank you Vinay,

this was exectly what I was looking for,

regards,

Hans

Hello all,

I still have the same situation; I wonder if there even is an answer to this question.

Has anyone come across the same situation?

tia,

Hans

Hello Noel,

I ran sp_helppublication on the publication db, and it returned these results:

1timesheet_prd_TRA01110Snapshot publication of timesheet_prd_TRA database from Publisher NL00-TSHEET1TST.001100000NULL336001NULLNULLNULL0NULL21NULLanonymous00NULL14NULLNULL100

It was a great help, because I saw that there was...