You made my day Steve !

I hope it works ... I have waited 2 days already ...

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I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I wanna kill. I wanna kill! I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth! Eat dead, burnt...

Here's a link no proghrammer shoud be without:

http://www.connectionstrings.com/

The charges for the support call to PSS should be waived if you in fact run into a documented 'bug'.

If you registered your server and databases in AD you can had an AD Administrator give you the list. If not, then the other options posted are your best bet.

What kind of sizes are we talking about here ?

database data is ??? Gb

database log is ??? Gb

Big/Large are all relative terms ...

The optimal solution is not for a client side alias but a DNS alias. With most applications a DNS alias to the FQDN of the SQL Server works great.

It sounds like they have restricted access to your SMTP server by IP only. You need to have the IP address of your SQL Server added to the 'allow' portion...

Try checking with the Domain Admins and ask them if there are any type of AD errors in the System Event logs of the PDC(s) and BDC(s) ... additionally ask...

Nice command documentation for *NIX Steve

It is a shame MS does not have better pictures

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa933230(sql.80).aspx

One item to ber aware of about NGS SQL Crack. It creates some entries in your registry that can never be removed (or at least a Domani Admin could not!)....

Are there any other PowerBuilder application accessing the SQL Server or is this the first ? I seem to remember a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

You need to start the instance on a cluster via the command line, NOT the cluster administrator, to go into single user mode.

A note for the future:

Whenever you restore the master database the SQL Server service stops itself automatically.