If you have Visual Studio, here you have a manual with MS Source Safe http://www.dbazine.com/sql/sql-articles/cook11

If you are evaluating SQL Server you can put your new users like DB_Owner. This work fine for connections throw other applications like visual studio or web development.

May be an error in the Windows installer package. You can try to install the last version of Windows installer. And reinstalling SQL Sever

May be temporal data of your databases. You can try changing the recovery mode of your backups

May be that you need to start Secondary Logon service in your backup server

May be the TempDB. It's better to put it in another hard drive or partition.

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After you have run the TRUNCATE TABLE statement, it is important

then to manually update the statistics on this table using

UPDATE STATISTICS. This is because running TRUNCATE TABLE will

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First of all define a Linked Server to the Active Directory Services using the below t-sql command.

EXEC sp_addlinkedserver 'ADSI', 'Active Directory Services 2.5', 'ADSDSOObject', 'adsdatasource'

Enable QPENQUERY in SQL Server 2005...