One issue that we are currently facing is performance.  Our database is approximately 190 GB and some of the tables are pretty large.  I am running defrags on the tables...

Are you using the Oracle 10 ODBC driver?  Can you try using an Oracle 8 driver instead?  Since you are using the Microsoft SQL 7 provider for ODBC, a wild...

I'm hoping this comment was a typo "I used to use log shipping on SQL 2000 and was able to run a backup of the secondary DB" because you can't run...

If it fails again you might want to take a look at the installation log file.  It's normally located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\log\summary.txt.

Well, I almost don't believe it myself but my guess was right (on our servers anyway).  Once we changed the Display name to exactly what the Alias name was in the Exchange...

Now that's interesting.  We've been having SQL mail issues, but our scenario is backward from yours.  We've had sp4 on the SQL Servers for some time and SQL mail hasn't...

Yes of course.  SQL mail has been running fine here for 7 years and since all of the above recnet changes it has been having problems.  A server admin said...

We're also getting the same errors on a few servers and are currently researching.  We recently upgraded to Exchange 2003 and added Active Directory.  We're also using a variety of...

I'm having the same problem on quite a few servers too--some use Outlook client 2000, 2002, or 2003.  We upgraded one of the Exchange servers to Exchange 2003 and started...

Just be prepared to change any of them back.  I changed startup accounts on one particular server and the clients were unable to connect with ODBC unless the connection properties...

We haven't had that exact problem before, but we have had cases where the provider ran out of storage (memory) and only restarting the service would fix the hang.  Couldn't...

What version of Oracle are you connecting to?  I believe that MS doesn't support anything over Oracle 8.  Even if you have an older driver, I've found that different drivers...

Of course there is always the possibility of creating locks whether it's running a badly written query in Query Analyzer or a poorly written report (doesn't matter if it's Access,...

I've tested SQLLiteSpeed and was quite pleased with it until I had to do a restore.  The backups were faster, files much smaller, but restores on the whole took a...

Could be, but I'm not sure.  Most of our links to Oracle do not have them checked (not even the one used in replication) but the links are used mostly...