A good starter book is Learning Perl on Win32 Systems from O'Reilly.

Shouldn't sp_distribute_resume also be executed?

Also, if you're using Windows 2000 Server (not Advanced Server), the /3GB switch will load drivers, etc. into memory like it would in Advanced Server, but applications are still limited...

Sure, Mr. Shea takes basic administrative tasks and shows how he has built Perl scripts to handle and improve handling of those tasks. You can see what he has done...

On the SQL Server itself you have a user account created that matches the account the web application runs under on the IIS box? Both username/password must match.

Jason's got it right. SQL Server doesn't concern itself with rows when backing up. Too inefficient. You can see that the structure is defined if you look at Books Online....

I would say your situation is an extreme one... one which many of us wouldn't enjoy working in. I'm primarily on the server side and I wouldn't think of allowing...

ActiveState Perl is built for Windows environments. One of the organizations who has actively funded the development of Perl on Windows is... Microsoft! As a matter of fact, if you...

Right. Tweaked. Not a big deal, but it has to be done on each computer typically and it gets to be a pain...

I've also found Perl to take less lines of code and be quicker to turn out code in. And I started out professional as a QuickBasic programmer and moved on...

Here's another one, from Cisco:

Cisco SAFE SQL Slammer Worm Attack Mitigation

This document contains the following statement:

The most effective method to contain this worm is the application...

If they are worried about Slammer, this should serve as a rude awakening to them that they've got it all wrong:

Symantec write-up

McAfee...

Typically, unless you either have a Terminal Services Licensing Server or really tweak Remote Desktop, though, you have to have administrative access to use Terminal Services. From what you indicated,...

On the same token, though, the argument from the server admin group is this:

"Don't hold me accountable for uptime and availability of a server when others outside of the server...

Yup. I have those tools on my workstation, too. I could load cygwin but I haven't as of yet.