Are you in the US? I'm expecting greater delays in the UK.

Are they the results for all the exams, or just the first one you took?

No; the first instance listens on 1433 by default - subsequent instances, named instances, defaults to dynamically allocating a port. See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;823938

However, when using the setup.iss to create a...

I have a current job which is launched by users, it uses xp_cmdshell to call BCP and import a large amount of data.

Without using a proxy or sysadmin,...

Could be one of a million things.

My first guess with this level of information is that you are not defining the ODBC link with the default instance name e.g....

Run this to find orphaned logins:

USE ;

GO;

sp_change_users_login @Action='Report';

GO;

These are the things you can only do with Enterprise Edition:

* Data Mining Training Destination

* Data Mining Query Component

...

Performance is improved but unless you have optimised your current code to it's limits then you are unlikely to see much benefit in simply upgrading.

Performance is almost always improved by...

Never upgrade for this reason.

Assess your current setup, tell us what deficiencies you have and we can make suggestions - otherwise it's just a reposting of microsofts features which you...

If you can't tell how many versions of SQL are running you can look in computer manager > services or SL Server Configuration Manager > Services, or add/remove programs.

If...

Wrong forum.

You can't; with local accounts you can specify the machine name as the domain.

Looks like your uninstall left components behind - you'll need to trawl google, your file system and registry to clean it up.

Use a complex password.

Source control, I believe, is achieved by integrating BIDS and VSS. The question about operability on different databases will be down to the coding of your packages to run...

As you can see the problem is in connecting to the source you are trying to import.

Anaylaze all aspects of the connection, networking, permissions etc. and pst up what you...