The error message states that NAMED PIPES did not work so enabling TCP won't work. Maybe this article will help, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188247.aspx

Sure, you either need to run query analyzer on the server/PC that Express is installed on or you need to use the Surface Area Configuration Manager to allow remote connections...

If as Jeffrey has noted, you have 8 sockets then SQL Server 2005 Standard will only use 4 of the processors. You should be able to run SQL Server...

Have any PTF's been applied to the AS400? If so you may need an updated IBMDASQL driver.

If your source is SQL Server might I suggest you do the conversion in your SQL Statement in the source. Something like:

DECLARE @test-2 TABLE (col VARCHAR(5))

INSERT INTO

...

I don't know of anyway to hide a parameter based on another parameter within SSRS. You could do a custom web page that does that and then calls the...

Are they ad hoc queries or stored procedures? Are they parameterized? Are they the exact same queries including parameters?

Apparently this is a known issue that currently will not be addressed in SQL Server 2008 but is supposed to be addressed in the next version of SQL Server. ...

Just found this thread which asks the same question so you might want to check it out as well.

Check out this thread as well as it asks the same question.

I wouldn't recommend it. Anything that happens in a trigger happens within the scope of the INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE transaction so if the web service call fails the transaction will roll...

What you are seeing is the ExistingConnection event. This basically lists all existing connections along with the connection settings. This can be important because some of the settings...

I'd probably do the Virtual Machine. You can build it once, save a copy of the clean VM off somewhere, mess around and if it gets messed up you...

Nope, you'd get a unique index/constraint violation error.

Was...

Here's a good blog post[/url] about setting US Holidays in a calendar table.