wow.. thanks for all your help, the instmdb worked!

I found that too and seems to work well for SS2000 but for SS2005, how do schedule an SSIS

Hey this is an excellent article. Thanks for providing the link

ah, ok. 60 rows, and the fill factor for the PK is 90%

I realize that, I care less about the user's experience on rouge SQL Engines, because they created their own mess instead of using the dev servers for test and production...

Ha ha ha, I guess that is one way to guarantee that they will stop installing new software. I've thought about having our network admin setting setting some sort...

Wow, that is so cool!

Thanks for the help

If I may ask what type of support policy do you employ in your environment, when...

We just signed up w/ Red-Gate Sql Backup, I've been extreamly happy w/ other Red-Gate products such as the Sql Prompt and Sql Compare. While Sql Lite Speed...

Dan,

When this hits my server I can connect via EM and QA and my Idera Diagnostic Manager. I can even create a .udl link to test the...

We recently have started seeing this error on our Sql Server 2000 sp4 on Windows 2000 server SP4.

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80004005'

[DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).]SQL Server does...

So I ran the BSA from MS, but my sysadmin still beleives that I may need to apply the hotfix from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9552d43b-04eb-4af9-9e24-6cde4d933600&displaylang=en

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Version: 8.00.0194

Security Bulletins: MS02-039

Date Published:...

sweet, thank you,... this was dumb... but at least it was on my "dev" box (not even test) . I removed the parameter...

I kinda jumped the gun while reading this thread, I have a dev server (sql developer actually) and what I did was right click in EM and in startup parameters...

Ran the BSA product and the report it generated was very intrestresting. It did come back with what is known about the servers, such as some that still have...

I've downloaded BSA and am running against the "vulnerable" reported systems.