Something is not right here. First of all, whatever the value you set for
'network packet size' usig sp_configure should not prevent the SQL instance
from coming up online. There is a max value which is 32767. If you try to set
a bigger value, SQL Server will reject it.
When you use Tools-> Options-->Advaced to change packet size, you are not
changing the option on the server side. Rather, you are changing a client
setting.
When your SDQL instance did not come online, what error message did you get?
Linchi
> using sp_configure we inadvertanly set the network packet size too big, an
> didn't get a warning. when we restarted the mssql service we found that the
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> doesnt change the sp_configure value. How can we do this without sql
> analyzer ??
don - 15 Mar 2008 13:46 GMT
we get :odbc msg0 level 16 state 1 sqlserv driver(memory allocation failure)
trying to connect to sqlquery.. which means i cant run any sql commands to
reset sp_configure, unless you know of some other method of running that
process. Also when we try to start the sqlserver agent we get this error: 165
odc error 0, memory allocation failure [sqlstate HY001]

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Don
> Something is not right here. First of all, whatever the value you set for
> 'network packet size' usig sp_configure should not prevent the SQL instance
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> > doesnt change the sp_configure value. How can we do this without sql
> > analyzer ??
don - 16 Mar 2008 17:04 GMT
we had to install ms sql server management studio (part of client tools) for
mssql 2005. This allowed us to reset the value in the sp_config procedure to
an acceptable value using the object explorer.

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Don
> Something is not right here. First of all, whatever the value you set for
> 'network packet size' usig sp_configure should not prevent the SQL instance
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> > doesnt change the sp_configure value. How can we do this without sql
> > analyzer ??