People need to get real. WiFi a plane. Cell phones on a plane. Air phones on a plane. Why? What is SOOO important, life or death emergency, that it can't...

Steve - In short, thanks! That's one of the funnest reads in a long time anywhere. - David

ditto to Andy's post. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Halleluiah. I was suspecting something of that nature, but never ran across it before. Thanks.

The app's windows account has not been granted access to the new SQL Server. The app uses SQL authentication with a login that is dbo to a dedicated database. TCP/IP works...

The app was/is an admin on the nondedicated machine. I just didn't understand why it had to be an admin on the newly separated SQL server in order for named...

Oops! Allen's right. Lost my head this morning. Sorry

Time and network bandwidth permitting, I'd just use the Copy Database Wizard. Why reinvent the wheel. I just converted a single database from a SQL 6.5 server to a SQL 2000...

Funny how a simple question gets to be so complicated. Yes, SQL Server will see 8 physical processors as 16. Configure as 16 to allow all physical & logical...

Have taken both admin & development classes. Your description starts off with basic Admin stuff (backups), but finishes with developer stuff: MS CRM isn't reporting, customize MS CRM, etc. Sounds...

Stewart, that's the way our document mgmt system works. SQL Server is nothing but document filenames. Who cares if anyone sees the filenames(nothing sensitive about f0000001.dat, & f0000002.dat) , the files...

"object is released" as in release to the operating system as free disk space to be used/accessed by the o/s or some other app. Is that the distinction you are...

milzs, check out this page on NSA security ratings of software. It appears Informix-OnLine/Secure, Trusted Oracle7, & Sybase's Secure SQL Server are only marginally higher classification than MS SQL Server...

A MS site with a bunch of security info:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/dbsql/default.mspx

including a topic on "Standards, Regulations, and Government Issues" and "Additional Security Resources"

For the instance of the...

hoo-t: "overwritten multiple times" - like PGP software wipes free space on hard drives.

milz: "hornet's nest" - that's life. When you got problems to solve, here's a great place to...