Where do you have to retype the password? In the Services dialog?

Are you picking the account using Enterprise Manager? There are certian rights that it needs that will be setup...

There are pros and cons of both. If you use Windows, passwords are managed for you, users don't need a separate passworrds. However, I've seen some screwy domain issues, can't...

Run profiler and see where the connections are coming from, what IP, hostname, etc. is being sent to the server. Are they all in the same db? Perhaps something in...

I think you have a suspect database if it is flagged in master, regarldless of the databaseprooperty return. Check your error log for issues.

Visual Studio is the best MS tool, but many will work.

VIC-20 here. Tape and all, but I'll see your 64 and raise you an Apple II

Thanks for the comments and I appreciate the thanks. I hope to see Ken soon and give an apology in person as well.

I don't think India should be singled out....

checkdb is recommended. It is a more exhaustive check and if it finds anything, you probably need to call Microsoft.

This thread has been moved from the QOD forum. Please pay attention and post questions in the appropriate forum.

I understand that. The documentation is the best that I have of this date. I will reword the explanation better. A parallel query, however, doesn't give you multi-threaded execution of...

How about the efficiency of using T-SQL v CLR type functions in SQL Server to solve some problems? It's an interesting debate, but it's one that could probably use some...

There is no formal review board, but if you'd like to be one....

Writing questions that have no typos is hard. If you think it's not, try a few and send...

It most assuredly uses one thread. We discussed this with the developer at TechEd and he pointed out a huge misconception in people thinking that it would execute across multiple...

charindex can help you find the positions of the dash and the =. substring can then extract that part out and you can use that for the comparison.

Look them up...

Dale,

Pls don't cross post. Lots of people scan all the forums, so they'll pick it up in the repl forum.

Steve