What does this return?

[font="Courier New"]select name, physical_name from sys.database_files where type_desc = 'FILESTREAM';[/font]

No, but you can

[font="Courier New"]ENABLE CHANGE_TRACKING

WITH (TRACK_COLUMNS_UPDATED = ON)[/font]

so that column-level changes are tracked, and then use [font="Courier New"]CHANGE_TRACKING_IS_COLUMN_IN_MASK[/font] to identify the columns that were changed.

Exclude the appropriate files per the Microsoft guidelines, & you should be able to run anti-virus software with minimal performance impacts: How to choose antivirus software to run on computers...

You said not on RDS. So does that mean you're using an EC2 SQL Server Windows instance?

Native SQL Server Backups don't support S3 -- Native backups have...

I have to second Jeff's questioning of the use of varchar(max)...

Before indexing it would seem valuable, even crucial, to review the data types.

Can DNS entries or Protocol really...

So they're part-time? 😉

Forgot to mention e) as a best practice, avoid such date formats in code. 'yyyy-MM-dd' and 'yyyyMMdd' are both ANSI-standard (I believe) and should.be interpreted correctly and unambigously by the...

Yes, the services all run, and I can run sqlcmd. SQL Server Profiler works. But SQL Server Management Studio is unusable.

Nope.

They are using different ports.

Ditto.

Anybody have any answers?

SQL Server 2008 installed side-by-side with SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition.

Noticed it after I installed SP1 and the Silverlight 2 Tools