Hello,

Looking at the threads, issue seems to be that you have not enabled the remote connections on the SQL 2005, to do this

1. Go to Surface area COnfiguration from Start...

Thanks for your suggestions Jacob....

Yes, you are right schema happens to be different for the clients (the application that writes into db is definitely not a scalabale one coz they...

Correct, horrible setup......

And right the first thought that came in my mind was to do merge replication (i am not actually a dba but .net dev) and learned sql express...

Nice article and I agree with you on the performance factors, but also would like to add that there are occasions like when you need real time data(read reports) from...