IF I am not mistaken I thought the unencrypted version is stored in one of the sys tables. Unfortunately I can't remeber which one.

If you only have SQL running on machine. Put /3GB switch in boot.ini. Set your max and min memory to 2.7Gbs you should see an improvement. (Look at the memory...

You need to install Outlook 2000. End of story.

Outlook 2000 is the only MAPI client that can run without opening the Outlook application.

You will need to install Outlook 2000 to succesfully send emails. or else with 2003, you will need to login, and open outlook as the service account and leave it...

Although you say it is a notebook, and I would assume you reboot it reguarly(I could be wrong). If you were anything like the developers at a job 5yrs ago,...

SPAM? i don't think this meets the definition of SPAM. It is in the right forum, the Topic is pretty self-explanitory, it is not trying to sell a competitive product....

Abcd,

I think you are asking where to find the sysinternals tools processmon, regmon. You can get them at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx

i have doubts that a virus would be stop SQLagent.

You are welcome. I am glad it saved you an un-needed re-install.

Don't be so quick to give up. Just need to dig a little deeper, because you could re-install and the problem still exist. I would suggest using regmon, filemon, or...

Well unfortunately it is a guessing game. I do my guessing by right clicking on the graph, select the source tab, and the set the start and end times to...

For security sake be sure to use a VPN, or some type of encrypted connection.

Your UPS may have gone flaky. We had an issue that the battary of the UPS was no longer good, and every two weeks it would do an automated test,...

I second Steve Jones.

I think you are confused at what your actual problem is. If you truely beleive you are having a DNS issue, verified using nslookup, then just add the mail server's...

Need to make sure the connection string specifies Trusted Connection = False and provide the needed SQL login credentials.  Having same username/password trick really only works from machines in a...