Do you have anything else installed on the system, such as an older version of Crystal Reports? May be a registry permissions problem.

What happens when you create a File DSN?

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Profiler will help you determine what queries are being executed. You can use a trace along with the Index Tuning Wizard to get some suggestions on how to go about...

Take a look at ActivePDF (http://www.activepdf.com) as well as Adobe's own PDFWriter (should be with Adobe Acrobat).

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You'll want to use Cluster Administration (cluadmin.msc) to manage cluster resources such as SQL Server. You can get cluadmin.msc (and the rest of the administrative tools) by install the adminpak.msi...

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My next app will include saving credit card numbers for automatic re-billing and I am scarred to death. I know I...

Best practice would still be to stop and start resources through Cluster Administrator.

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Please do not cross-post. Most of the folks responding on the forums read across all categories. Post replies here:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12475&FORUM_ID=5&CAT_ID=1&Topic_Title=unicode&Forum_Title=Administration

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Was surprised not to see any question about SPN and kerberos authentification.

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But you only see...

When in doubt, check Books Online. Quoting:

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Before you start the Migrate Repository Wizard, create or identify the SQL Server database to which...

At least he didn't ask about 2433...

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Also:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones/atemporarymove.asp

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Obviously, you lock down rights as much as possible.

If the developer isn't doing proper input validation and isn't using proper coding technique, there isn't a whole lot you can do....

This is definitely a test you can't take distracted. That means no Quake and SQL Server security testing at the same time.

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We could just start a movement to pronounce SQL as "George."

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By the way, an excellent web-cast that's a step-by-step walk through on how an attacker scopes out and attacks a box using SQL Injection:

http://www.microsoft.com/usa/webcasts/ondemand/1765.asp

This was presented by SQLServerCentral.com's Brian...