Contracting rates in the UK vary quite a bit as well, the lowest i've seen is £15 per hour, the highest around about £80 per hour. Quite a few...

When i received this error it was due to the collation of the two columns i was joining on being different. Check the collation for the two columns you...

We've been having similar problems, getting this message:

[DBNETLIB][ConnectionRead(recv()]

And also [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen(connect()] SQL server does not exist or access is denied.

We're not getting the problems as regularly as you are though.

The...

Thats very interesting, thanks for the info. Can you tell me what the version number should be for SP3a when performing select @@version ?

I suppose its not a definitive report. I'm going down the route of running traces at various times of day over a period of a week or so. ...

Does the Index Tuning wixard effect performance whilst you are running it? or should I wait until out of hours to run it ?

I'm also having the same problem with 2 SQL Servers running 3 instances each in a cluster, we don't really want to go about rebooting the servers or stopping and...

Thankyou for this very comprehensive explanation.

Thanks for the responses. In response to the last 2 replies, connecting using the Client Network Utility is fine. The connection strings the developers use from their web...

Well, the MDAC versions appear to be the same. Its just a really strange problem. Sporadic appearances in the web server application log saying:

The VB Application identified by...

Many Thanks, it does.

It looks like both the database server and the web server have the same versions of 2.7.

Back to the drawing board !

Many thanks, that helps alot.

Apologies for tagging on to this thread, but I'm getting a similar error message but its being raised in the application log of our web server. We have seperate...