"This year we have a zombie and two soldiers." Sounds like someone from our goverment!

In the telecoms industry guys were sent out for bottles of "Dial tone"

I found the problem!

It is indeed a limitation of Express edition. The database you are drawing the report data from must reside within the same SQL Server Express as...

Yes I have installed advanced services. I can create reports, preview them and deploy them but am unable to view them in Internet Explorer

Keith

I have checked the connection settings and they are all valid. If I create a new datasource I can see it being added to the database in the DataSource table....

As Scott Coleman says you can set the DataEnvironment properties at designtime which works fine but trying to change things at runtime doesn't seem to work. This means you have...

The job that sp_start_job is running only changes the status from 9 to 1 (Pending complete to complete) the original trigger then does all the work. It does nothing other...

Unfortunately I have inherited this database. I would never have put any triggers in place to fire when any of the real time processes write to the database.

I have made...

Here is the text from the log file:

Starting Service ...

Connecting to Server ...

driver={sql server};server=.;UID=sa;PWD=;database=master

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Named Pipes]Specified SQL server not found.

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Named Pipes]ConnectionOpen (CreateFile()).

driver={sql server};server=.;UID=sa;PWD=;database=master

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server...

Tried all that originally. Still doesn't work!

I do not have a SQL-server installation on the server at all and trying to install one fails and then cleans up after itself and doesn't leave anything to delete,...

My experience with merge replication is that you have to make sure the id's are uniquely allocated like you have already done. So the only benefit is that it does...