Loopback linked servers (server1 referring to itself through a linked server connection) like what you cite here are not supported. Even says so in Books Online, as Microsoft was so...

I've been in your shoes. DTC in Windows 2003 has proven problematic. However, the combination of Enabling network DTC access and the COM+ 1.5 Rollup Package 4 (which is in...

Hence the reason I'm not going to participate if it's a "do you know this? type of post. However, if anyone has a legitimate issue, and I have the time,...

The Windows server would continue to function as you'd expect it to. In other words, if you have a pagefile set, it still reads/writes to the disk. That behavior is...

I agree with you Michael. If I have the time, I help those I can. And I do tend to prioritize based on who is most responsive. For instance, if...

In the process of helping folks like this, others might also be helped. That's my philosophy. Also, if he gets genuinely helped once, perhaps his attitude will change. He's obviously...

Ah, yes, that's more manpower than I was thinking of. I was thinking of just the coding effort to modify the forums. Very valid point.

This has been talked about before but even those systems have issues. For instance, a new poster with no points/feedback with a valid point tends to get ignored. Also, as...

Yup, how did you guess?

The reasons for going with ESX server have nothing to do with performance. In a straight up match, performance is going to take a small hit on the virtual server...