I am not sure what do you want to do.  Your code connect to the database as you want to make a query. In...

In my previous company I merged a few dev sql 2000 DB on MS Virtual Server. In the present company I was forced to install SQL 2005 on VMWare von...

Check this http://sqljunkies.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=4815

I would very carefully in renaming a cluster.

Difficult to say. But I would not remove this account . The Builtin\Administrator is not a user, but a group. This is different.

NT Authority\System and local system account are not the same. Local system account has high privileges on the machine. Avoid to use it. For more information and racommandation Have a...

Can you ping the server by FQDN ? Maybe it is a network issue.

Error 9002 indicates transaction log filling up. Check this

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873235/en-us

It's more a networking problem. If you want to direct the traffic on one network segment, make sure that your network administrator routes the traffic on the second connection.

Dick wrote

your view should surface all the relevant PK's so the view can hit the appropriate base table.

but you might be interested in this experiment [same for TSQL and in...

from BOL

"Use System Monitor (Performance Monitor in Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0) to retrieve information on SQL Server memory usage and available memory. Task Manager does not provide accurate memory usage...

Write a VBS Script (WMI) to check up the space left and set up a scheduled task. In my opinion this is a OS task for the system administrator.

Try this link http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx?postid=79418&siteid=1&sb=0&d=1&at=7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=0

is all what I found

"Or are you connecting via the Virtual server Admin page to do the install"

This is a good point. As far as I know the connection over the admin page provides...

With MS Virtual Server and VMware I was always able to install, however at least SP4. Before you install mssql is the server working fine ? Did you install the...

It is possible. If you work with W2K3 I would connect with the console switch. On W2K you can encounter problems. If your cluster is to far away you can...