The other thing you're going to want to do is get your concerns documented. Address a pleasant but focused e-mail to the admin indicating the risks as you see them...

Though this may seem a little harsh, it's not meant to be... rather it's the "What If?" and the "Uh-oh, we hit a wall" types of things that are running...

SQL Server 2000 supports the use of SSL to encrypt the data stream. If you are not in an Active Directory domain with an Enterprise CA or if you need...

I'm a command-line junkie from my background with DOS and Unix, so I don't have any issues with patching in this manner, but keep in mind that are still quite...

I concur with the majority recommendation here and only suggest putting IIS on the same box for one reason: long enough to get a server-side certificate installed for SSL. Then...

Part of what fostered the lazy argument was that there was more than a handful of folks that complained publically about the fact that the hotfixes were too hard to...

Is the client or the SQL Server running on Win98?

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When you run a profiler trace and look for things like lock timeouts, lock deadlocks, and recompiles, what are you seeing?

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There is a KB article on this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;263712

The Cluster service account does need SA rights. This hasn't changed. BTW, it'll be the one that queries the service to make sure it's...

I've had similar lockup issues with VMWare on WinXP. I ended up removing the USB support for the particular VM and got past it. BTW, when installing the Server 20003...

Timscronin,

Your admin is right, it's not a big deal... from his current flawed perspective. But point out to him that absolutely nothing is stopping any of the users from completing...

Here's a question. When you get that error and then check on the SQL Server, is it up and running? Is there any indication in the logs that it is...

Allen is right... there is a KB article that talks about this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;263712

Do note, you can only ever impede administrators. We can still get in, if by no other way than...

Excellent news. Glad to be of help.

K. Brian Kelley

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The oledb32.dll version appears to be slightly newer (.4 versus .0) so perhaps Component Checker hasn't been updated as of yet.

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