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MS SQL Server 2000 Vulnerability

Hello, I have installed on one of my servers SQL Server 8.00.2273 - SP4 (Standard Edition). At the last vulnerability tests it founds the followings: 1. Microsoft SQL Server MTF Data Structures Memory Corruption Vulnerability (MS08-040) 2. Microsoft SQL Server 'sp_replwritetovarbin' Remote Memory...

SQL related tables

I have 2 tables one with all my products and their accociated details and another with comments on the products. Product table 1 prodID, title, description, price Comments table 2 commID, prodID, comment I would like to export this to a single XML file, thus an XML element for each product from...

Community Announcement: Cash in your Knowledge Points for an Amazon gift card

Members who have earned over 1,000 Knowledge Points in the community by December 15th have the opportunity to cash in their points for Amazon gift cards -- just e-mail us at contactus -AT- itknowledgeexchange.com with your handle when you choose to cash out. You can also post here in the discussion...

Tree View Control

i am trying 2 make and explorer using the tree view control in my project using VB 6, SQL Server 2000 and crystal reports. in the looping statements i had inculed the details and all. i need 2 display the results in the Grid Box when click the nodes in the Tree control. please provide the code for...

Writing a stored procedure across two databases

I currently backup our live databases and restore them into a QA environment. This doesn't cause a problem with our stored procedures as they have all been written without hard-coded database names. Software/Hardware used: sql server

Restore a View Sql Server 2005

I over-wrote a VIEW by mistake. How do I recover the original version of the view? Is there a way to ROLLBACK a "CREATE VIEW..." command? Software/Hardware used: SQL Server 2005

The most-watched IT questions this week: Oct. 13, 2009

Here are the 10 most watched questions on ITKE: There’s some great discussions going on ranging from going green to how to create a new network. Go answer a question now and take your shot at winning a TV, or check out the rest of the top 10 on the Community Blog: 1. Going green: Are you feeling...

Different database & server collation

Hi, We have a database that is sitting on a SQL Server 2005 with different collation setting, the application connect to the database is running with out any issue. Have anyone had this same issue, if so how long has your application run with different database and server collation without...

Resource usage of SQL Server 2005 Generate Script

Hi, I am wondering how resource hungry the Generate Script for SQL Server 2005 is. We are planing to script out one of our production database on a production server that has over 1000 object to script, and wether this will have more affect on SQL performance during the scripting? Thanks.

SQL 2000 & Outlook 2000

We have a couple of SQL 2K Servers which have a mailbox associated with them, have always used Outlook 2000 because anything newer does not work and today it has gone wrong!!! We are now getting a "Cannot open the mailbox, information store not available" we cannot get the server to work with...

Trying to setup a Merge publication between two database Need Help!

HI I am trying to setup a Merge publication between two database and I am having troubles.  I have to server one is HKDD01 and LDDD01 and the HKDD01 is set as the distribution and the LDDD01 is set as the subscriptions. I am trying to create a Merge publication with pull subscription and I am...

ms sql query problem with a case statement

[strong]This code works: SELECT     passengers.*, passship.passship_name AS name, passship.passship_speed AS speed, passship.passship_size AS cargo, hyperjump.hops AS hops, ROUND((passengers.pass_engers * passengers.pass_price) / (hyperjump.hops * passship.passship_speed), 0) AS ptprofit...

Can I Use Tomcate as a "Witness" Server in SQL 2005 Mirroring

Hello i am using SQL 2005 and i have Tomcat as an Application Server i want to use Mirroring on my DB and i am looking for the way that let me make Tomcat as my Witness server [Br class="height5" /][small] [/small] Software/Hardware used: Tomcat, SQl 2005

Replication Causes Client Application to Hang

I've got 25 Sites that are running an application that connects to MS SQL 2005, All the sites have their own copy of a database and have one similar database that holds information gathered from the different sites, now what is happening is that if a client registers at one institution and then...

Pulling data from tables on different servers

I have a join between a table on my local database and a table on a different database on the same server. I reference the non-local database with DatabaseName.TableName. Now I find that the non-local database might be on a different server. I tried ServerName.DatabaseName.TableName, but I got this...

Full vs Transaction Log Backups

Is it nessisary to perform a log backup on a database that is set to Full recovery if I am uninterested in doing a point in time restore? I could opt for Simple, but, really my question is, why? My question also goes on to the size of the ldf file, and will it reuse space and not have to grow...

Soon you can redeem knowledge points for Amazon.com gift cards

Yes we are coming up knowledge points and will be announcing the ability to redeem all the points you have earned thru december this year for amazon.com gift cards. Next week we will be sending out an email with all the details but it should be fun to see who ends up asking and answering to beef up...

Why are naturl JOIN keywords not an option for producing a self-join?

Why are naturl JOIN keywords not an option for producing a self-join?

How does SQL Server 2000 CAL licensing work

Hi, Just wondering how SQL Server CAL licensing work. For example in one of our client SQL Server 2000, we notice in the SQL Server 2000 licensing icon in Control Panel, it is set to CAL of 50. Does this mean if the 51st client tries to access the SQL Server, an error will occur? Thanks in...