Possibly. When you run the Client Network Utility (cliconfg.exe), is Named Pipes listed higher than TCP/IP?

K. Brian Kelley

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Author: Start to Finish Guide to SQL Server Performance Monitoring

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Try this:

http://www.sqlmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=22956

K. Brian Kelley

http://www.truthsolutions.com/

Author: Start to Finish Guide to SQL Server Performance Monitoring

http://www.netimpress.com/shop/product.asp?ProductID=NI-SQL1

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I'd like to see the site owners take a more active role in identifying and answer FAQs either in the FAQ section...

Minor correction: I think it was Andy who wrote about developers being asked to pick up MCAD and MCSD.

In my case, I have one premium cert: an NT 4.0 MCSE....

If a change needs to be made in points how about this: the winners from one month can't win the next month? Seems pretty simple enough. Finish in the top...

I agree with Antares about the new layout, I'm not a big fan of showing the formulas. As far as the weighting of each item, I can understand how it...

Not exactly... certain companies practic "Open Disclosure" meaning Microsoft finds out when the rest of the public does. Microsoft won't announce a vulnerability until they have a patch. And it...

Are you using 1.0 or 1.1? 1.0 had bugs like this. I'm not sure how much got addressed in 1.1. If you are using 1.1 and are still having issues,...

BTW, if you use any of the following tools, they'll identify what your SQL Servers are missing:

Microsoft Security Downloads (http://www.microsoft.com/security):

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

HFNetChk (command-line)

Free Utilities:

HFNetChkLT (http://www.shavlik.com)

Third-Party (Non-Free Utilities):

HFNetChkPro (http://www.shavlik.com)

Update...

I've experimented quite heavily with the system tables and permissions but don't have anything ready as of right now. Suffice it to say that when you start locking down system...

Subscribe to the Microsoft Security Bulletin and you should be covered:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/

Also, NTBugTraq is one of the first places vulnerabilities and patches are reported. You can join that list, too:

http://www.ntbugtraq.com/

K. Brian...

NGSSQLCrack:

http://www.ngssoftware.com/

K. Brian Kelley

http://www.truthsolutions.com/

Author: Start to Finish Guide to SQL Server Performance Monitoring

http://www.netimpress.com/shop/product.asp?ProductID=NI-SQL1

Personally I desipise how MDAC is built, but what can you do? It really shouldn't be this hard. Nor should being able to go back in Internet Explorer versions.

K. Brian...

Since you proposed a 16-way with 32 GB of RAM, which is more than I'll get to play with anytime soon, does DataCenter offer any advantages with multiple instances over...

An easy way to demonstrate how.

On the named instance, execute the following:

USE Northwind

GO

SELECT *

INTO AltCustomers

FROM Customers

Add your linked server pointing to the named instance.

Create the following...