Have you attempted to contact the 3rd party vendor? There may be a method to modify the default password, because I would think many people would have run into...

I would have thought if this was possible at all, that it would be a registry setting somewhere, but I haven't found anything myself, and from what I have seen,...

From Profiler 2005, after you start the trace (seems to me you should be able to do this before clicking run, but the trace setup/properties window has control, so you...

I believe you need to add a custom database role in the database, and then grant specific securables (users, grant view definition).

Actually, I would agree with this... by "development work", I was more referring to testing things out on a personal level (table design,...

It depends on what "in production" means. If "production" consists of one database server serving as the back-end for a webpage or two, then express would probably work just...

Is there any need then to notify by email on anything other than...

If not, it's a good idea to remove that post asap (just my $.02, of course)

I think that only adds a check constraint.

Two bits you may want to check out:

From Microsoft upgrade guide:

Migrating to SQL Server 2005 Integration Services

There’s a reason that Microsoft didn’t use the name of Integration Services’ predecessor, Data...

If you are talking about maintenance plans, there is an option on the last page of the wizard to email the report (though it won't be an attachment, but rather...

Erm...I hit F7 and nothing happens. Oh well...

I think I know what you are referring to, but not sure how this is any easier than using the generate scripts...

Is this post-sp2 or something? What summary tab (F7)? (Prepared to feel...

No, the date created for master is meaningless in this regard.

Please post your exact command you are executing. I have no problem running restore filelistonly against another server using UNC syntax, or any problem with actually restoring a db.