We are hosting an ASP.NET web application in a Windows 2003 server
(with SP 2) that talks to an SQL Server 2000 database in another
machine - there is no firewall between these two. I have ports 135,
1433 open in the web server. But I am getting an error while trying to

In the first runs of installing SQL Server 2005 on a cluster, we needed to
use domain groups for each service as part of the install. It was something
you couldn't get past.
I have been looking for the article that refers to this and it appears to no

We have an SQL Cluster active/passive, currently running SQL 2005 as a named
instance.
We want to now install SQL 2000 as the default instance.  Microsoft says,
"When you use SQL Server 2000 installations and SQL Server 2005

I have 1 sql 2000 cluster (2 nodes active/passive) running on win2k3. I have
one default instance running. I need to create a separate instance. Do you
have any recommendations for installing a 2nd instance on this sql cluster or
articles? Im sure that because this is a sql ...

I've been asked to try and take our first foray into setting up a SQL 2005
Active/Passive cluster for a SharePoint deployment. I've not done clustering
before and could ue a few pointers and hopefully get a few questions
answered.

I wish to ask two questions about failover (active/passive) SQL 2005
clustering, as some parts are vague about these matters from what I have read
till now.
As I am called to design an appliance of a failover clustering from scratch,

Please forgive the cross posting. I just don't know which would be the right
group for this quesions. We are looking at using Business Contact Manager
for Outlook 2007. We'd like to have a shared BCM database. We have an SQL
2005 (active/passive) clustered server. I've read that ...

OS: Windows Server 2003
SQL Server: SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition
Environment: Development
Summary:

I just created a cluster with two nodes installed. Now I wonder how can I
test failover for cluster, such as unplug the network cable for node1. Is
there any other way that I can use to test failover? I remember theere are
some ways that I can setup something in cluster ...

I'm getting ready to set up my first SQL Server 2005 Cluster so if I
sound like I don't really know what I'm doing...it's because I don't.
I'm reading white papers and doing research.
My plan is to have a cluster containing 2 nodes that are connected to

We have an Active/Active/Passive SQL 2000 cluster and budgetary constraints
have made it impossible for us to upgrade the hardware to new servers. Our
current servers are capable of handling the upgrade but some of our databases
might not be compatible with SQL 2005.  Can we ...

We have just setup two servers (SQL2K) in Active/Passive clustered
environment on Windows Server 2003. Now I need to restore my database from
the most recent backup. Should I restore it on Active node like before or
there are special considerations for restoring on clustered SQL ...