I am glad I could help.

In 2005 you have to use the surface area configuration tool to enable SQL Server to allow remote connections, all you need is covered in the link below by Microsoft....

(We're human, we make mistakes, and software is incredibly complex. I don't see this career field going away anytime soon.)

I had this conversion with an employee of a former employer...

IT is fun I do it because it is easy, I am a consultant but I have not made any money.  If there is good pay I have not seen...

The link below should get you started, it is ANSI SQL so when you finish the tutorial run searches in the BOL for Microsoft explanations because that covers Microsoft implementations...

I don't think Bulent is correct anybody with 7.0 MCDBA should contact Microsoft directly because I got an email about two weeks back from the team to upgrade with two...

There is a 3 Terabytes a year implementation I know using PeopleSoft for global Human Resources operation for a big oil company.  I was in a 64bits class with the consultant...

Drivers are hardware manufacture related issues I have used HP Itanium boxes and don't have issues and VS2005 comes in 64bits edition.  I run VS Team Suites BI Management Studio...

Congrats Sarah for your new position.

There is a very simple answer Intel created Itanium specifically for the 64bits platform back in the early 2000 so given the choice between Itanium and improved Xeon choose Itanium.  I was...

I agree with you in everything it is those processes that exposes wrong doings, processes, checks and balance will protect companies more than any intrusive background checks.

The point I am trying to show is the people making the decisions do more harm to companies than people hired without background checks will ever cause any company.

The point I...

(Your decision must be made based on protecting the interests of your company, its employees and yourself.

When you hire some one, you speak for your company, not yourself. )

In many...

Due diligence very dubious words because it will not stop employer friends,family and concubines spending millions needed for development tools or industrial grade hardware software engineers need to perform basic...

I would think a backup and restore of the latest after you have worked out all the issues will take care of that.  In the database there are very few...