What was the error?

Likely the installer doesn't recognize W2K8, but I bet this will work fine. This used to occur with SQL 65 on W2K and SQL 7 on W2k3,...

They're still going. Might be an update to a filter on your end.

I don't think 2005 has any advantages over 2008. 2008 is essentially a 2nd version of 2005 with features bolted on. Now I wouldn't necessarily use some of those new...

And Gail wears a nice, pressed hakima for throwing her favorite editor around 🙂

I've honestly stopped checking this at many servers since they're usually > 90%. However I have seen it in the 80s or lower and more memory almost always solves this...

Paul, I tend to agree with that. MS is open in some ways, but very closed in others.

Let us know there's something in the works. In this case, I'm not...

I agree somewhat about BI being an oxymoron. I've seen quite a bit of stuff that says they put in too much BI-type analysis and counted on it to lower...

Relevance and clarity for sure. That might be sparse documentation IF it's clear.

It also has to be readily available. Which is another problem. Code is easier, but keeping it near...

Definitely choose 2008. Not sure Vista stinks, but it isn't much better than XP in many ways, and worse in some, notably using resources.

James, as a manager, there are definitely things you need to withhold. Some of that is business related, some confidentiality, etc.

However as a worker, you shouldn't withhold information required to...

You will have to build a series of logic steps to handle this. You need to know what prefixes to look for and handle those (Mr., Mr, Ms, Ms., Mrs,...

For every job, there are various options in the properties. One of these is notifications.

You have to set up an operator, set up Database Mail, and then you can select...

Are you running SQL 2000, IIS, and SQL 2005 all on this server?

It does sound crazy.

Can you create a new user (and login) and trace that from the application? I'm suspicious that the application is doing something else and you're missing it...

Great advice from Andrew, and if that doesn't work, the likely cause is that you need to tune your SQL more. Badly written code, or a lack of indexes, account...