RTM = Release to Manufacturing. It's out of the Beta/CTP cycle. The Upgrade Advisor probably requires the production release of the .NET Framework 2.0. If you still have the beta,...

If you are trying to install the RTM of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, you must first uninstall the beta version of the .NET Framework 2.0.

I haven't see data leak like that, but the backup files themselves aren't encrypted in SQL Server 2000. The password may stop someone from restoring the file, but there are...

4.294E9 = 4,294,000,000. When you do a check using Perfmon or query sysperfinfo, what do you get back for Active Transactions, the same number?

The only reason I ask about that is I have seen the firewall re-enable itself and we had one case where we thought we had ruled out the firewall and...

The MCSD, MCSE, and MCDBA titles as we know them aren't being continued into the new tests. Microsoft is changing the certification titles to try and reflect how the career...

I've not seen that error before with Profiler. However, given you're getting a pointer error from several c modules within SQL Server, this is probably something you should call Microsoft...

That's a hard call when it comes to DBAs/data architects but typically an architect is thought of as above an administrator.

Hold on. Are the MSDEs installed on XP PCs? If so, are those PCs running the Windows firewall?

Chances are BUILTIN\Administrators has been left in with sysadmin rights. Are you able to connect using Windows authentication and an account that has administrative rights to the server on which...

I haven't... though my organization loves clusters we don't tend to use replication. There are a few folks around here that do both, though.

Check the network libraries enabled for MSDB. Run svrnetcn.exe to set the Network Libraries if you can connect via terminal services or are logged in from the console. In a...

Replication can run on a cluster, yes. You'll likely need to create a network share in the same cluster group, though, to support the files necessary to make replication work....

The problem there, though, is application roles persist with connection pooling, even if you don't want them to do so. The case here is connections are being made (new ones)...

SQLRecon performs the name resolution after it searches and finds SQL Servers based on IP.