Isn't the upgrade wizard part of 2000 though, not v6.5? So it might be doing a script objects/ bcp data, which is all that the DTS xfer database does.

In any...

I rarely delete stuff, but that one went so sideways, with almost no technical info, that I decided to whack it.

It wasn't anything I haven't seen before, but it seemed...

I thought that SQL 7/2000 could restore up from v6.5, but maybe not. This mentions the upgrade wizard, which might just be a DTS transfer

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa176562(v=SQL.80).aspx

Can I step back and ask why you need this? Not questioning you, but trying to help think a little outside the box about what might work.

My first thought is...

I have removed the "questionhacker" thread and account. It might not stop him from coming back, but I also sent an email, so we'll see.

However, in reading the thread,...

This is why...

Changing the instance name works fine, as the last two posters have noted, but this thread was about changing the "Company Name" on the installation. That I am not sure...

The startup options are set in the services applet for the service

The settings are here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190737.aspx

My question would be why do you care about the company name in the documentation? It's not tied to a license, and no one would see it. SSMS != SQL...

DBCC CHECKDB - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms176064%28v=SQL.90%29.aspx

As Gail mentioned, this doesn't cause errors.

Disabling it, even if allowed, doesn't make sense. Why would you not want to know about potential problems in the database?

credit them with the creative avatar of your choice.

For example, maybe this one for Grant:

He likes skirts.

Or maybe this one for Jason, given his tenure in Las Vegas:

GilaMonster (2/2/2011)

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Jason, Gus, Brandie, Wayne and Stefan. How do you want to be credited in tran log article? Blog link? twitter handle? Both? Neither? something else?

Please let me know by...

Brandie Tarvin (2/2/2011)

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How did you half-management / half-DBA types deal with the overload of DBA tasks?

I.E., say there's too much workload for the DBA team to handle in...

TJay Belt has the Galaxy and likes it. I played with it at Best Buy, and it works well. Missing some of...

Not "Begin", "Begin Transaction" isn't needed.