correct, you need to check with your office manager, purchasing, your VAR, etc to find out what you've purchased.

I say used to because I don't work for that company any more. AFAIK, they still do it that way. I mentioned it because you say you want to use...

This will work as long as session vars don't kill you.

Asfar as user information, I don't see anything listed to help prevent access there?

We used to oly allow access through...

you might need a "go" between startmail and sendmail.

Not that I know of. And you wouldn't want to be notified unless the block lasted xx amount of time. There will be tons of blocks that occur constantly, but...

Script them out from EM, including db permissions, then search and replace with the new domain name.

Then run the script.

Then edit the original script for the drops only and remove...

In the database, select * from sysindexes will tell you if they are there. This site has lots of info in stuff to watch for.

SQL SysAdmin - Yes and no. Natively you cannot prevent access, but Protegra and other products allow you to encrypt the data and this prevent access to the information. The...

You may have something unpatched or someone is looking for a server. 1434 is used to find instances across the network and see if they are running. If there is...

sp_changeobjectowner will also allow you to change the owner to dbo.

I don't believe that MSDE is cluster aware. You should see it on the node that you installed it on, but not on the clustered node.

Backup/restore is my method. sp_help_revlogin from MS's site can get logins. For DTS, I'd save off, open on the new server, you can script the jobs.

That's teh best way and then block the ip at the router while you investigate.

According to SQL 2000 BOL (didn't check 7 ), the SKIP option does not check for expired backups, so it would cause issues. The...

I think you may have some other isssue. If you change the status and reset the suspect flag and it still doesn't recover, you probably need to call MS. I'd...