Yes. Standard and above.

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The error merely indicates that a request was made to an offline database. Once you've brought it up you won't see the errors anymore.

As to why...

Fair enough.

Are you on the first Virgin Galactic flight too or are you going to...?

Trace counters: Lock:Acquired and Lock:Released Event Classes.

You have a 3.3 GB db with 0.6 GB free, therefore >80% full.

What's the question? You can increase the DB size, or set autogrowth depending on your specifics.

"The original question was "Was the instructor justified in his statement?" and I say no. His statement equates to "Go away kid, you're bothering me." Why he said...

It entirely depends on your requirements, but 2005 natively encrypts fields, objects et al.

"Ultra-ultra-conservative", "sounds to me like I can't be bothered"? How long have you been in this game then?

Microsoft products have a long history of critical problems in there first...

What's the entire problem?

Check these potential solutions:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=131970&SiteID=1

http://sqljunkies.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=85

http://blogs.msdn.com/jpapiez/archive/2004/12/09/279041.aspx

Seems to be fairly common on Google.

The launch in London had rumours of June.

Are you sure the server is 2005, and you're not using SSMS to connect to it?

Sometimes people do a side by side installation without realising it!

Change the plan, immediately go back in and verify that the change has been saved.

If not, you don't have the right permissions.

You an achieve virtually any audit requirement with native tools; make sure what your requirements are before you get the checque book out.

No, DTS is replaced by SSIS and is not part of SQL Server Express.

You can't backup restore from 7 as the file format changed in 2000, and I haven't seen...