ammo (7/14/2009)

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Sander,

I'm curious...Were there any suspicious-looking error messages in your installation logs?

Also, what did the Windows Event logs hold (both Application and System) for the failed service start that corresponds...

I know the consequenses about setting the recovery mode etc and I don't want to set it to simple because I want to be able to restore to a point...

This can probably help you:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q303292

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q288577

If you don't mind me asking what was the password you entered?

You could try something like this: S@ls3rv4r

This looks like a case for logshipping. Logshipping is the automation of creating a backup and restoring it on a standby server. This article can help you with implementing logshipping:...

This article can probably help you: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/cannotgeneratesspicontext/929/

Maybe this website can help you with that: http://binaryworld.net/Main/CodeDetail.aspx?CodeId=3847

In the book MCTS Self Paced Trainign from Microsoft itself you'll find several testquestions that you can take.

I always find CBT Nuggets very usefull for my exams: http://www.cbtnuggets.com/

I always used them to practice my test just to get me familiar with the way the tests go not to memorise the questions if that was already possible.

You can take a practice test using Visual CertExam. You can get the exam from here:

Editor: Link removed.

You can get the VCE (Visual Cert Exam test) from here:

Editor: Link removed as we do not condone braindumps

You can create a VPN connection through a batch file. At this website you can see how to do that: http://www.aeonity.com/frost/howto-windows-xp-vpn-into-remote-location

From the batch file you can use the...

What kind of Excel document are you trying to access. Is it a Excel 2003 or 2007.

Can you post the code with wich you created the linked server.

Use the following website to do this: http://www.sql-articles.com/articles/rebuildsysdb.html

AS principal

Specifies a principal from which the principal executing this query derives its right to grant the permission.

So in other words it grants the user to give other users the...