Is Canadian Pool now the national sport with the NHL out and the Olympics a couple years away?

Whoah, this wasn't a gender thing. Or at least that's not what I intended. Perhaps my (lack of) skill in the QOD is affecting my writing.

I was more going for...

Or do it locally.

They should be in syspackages in msdb. Check that table to see if they are there. The reinstall could have possibly overwritten the database. Do you have a backup?

Standard cannot use more than 2GB of RAM.

Yes, it's a typo and it has been fixed. Apologies. The cut and paste thing can be troublesome at times.

The language idea is great. Never thought of that, but my smattering of a couple languages might make me safer.

Yeah I think I know that guy

I believe xp_cmdshell runs under the context of the SQLServer service account. You can set a proxy in Enterprise Manager, adn you might want to set this to your account...

I tend to agree. Even if you stop broadcast requests, I can still scan ports trying to log in and I'll get the login response. It's fairly trivial to...

You need either a backup or go buy Lumigent/ApexSQL/LogPI log recovery tool and attempt to undo everything.

Aside from Remi's thoughts. The server will check itself for integrity and let you know that transactions are rolled back or forward. The checkdb should get any other issues....

Jay is mostly right. There's one other thing. If you can't fix it, you can blame the vendor in closed source. You can't blame anyone in particular in open source,...

Grrr, I hate when people move links.

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/IWKconferences/archives/2005/04/the_plight_of_t.html

Sorry, they seem to come in waves, like everything else. Writing questions is hard. Want to try and send in a few? (articles@sqlservercentral.com)