We are having difficulties with the security settings for distributed
transactions between linked servers , getting error 18456. I have read a
number of postings on internet but not got any closer to resolving this.
We have been rushed into managing distributed transactions across ...

Howdy,
We are currently building a application on the .NET framework and using
DotNetNuke (DNN) as the backend.  One thing we have noticed is that DNN uses
the same connection string for multiple users.  I was wondering what is

Is it possible to invoke (and get the result from) a table-valued UDF,
using Java CallableStatements (or something similar) with the SQL
Server JDBC driver?  If so, how?

I have two ATL Dlls that have multiple interfaces and run under two COM+
Applications.    Each DLL accesses SQL Server db via ADO calls and one of
the components also interacts with a 3rd party report server system.
We run into intermittent issues with the COM+ Application hanging.  ...

I would like to use plain kerberos authentication from Unix to connect to my
sql server from java. I understand this is possible, but not implemented. Is
there any documentation on the tds login packet format to authenticate with
kerberos? Where is the protocol documented?

Hi all, I'm new to SQL so here goes, we got a dbase we're putting up for the
web, and basically we're testing it out for connectivity, I set the system
dsn with the account that's in SQL server (got the server in mixed mode
auth), when I try to login to a page we put together I ...

I have taken on a project where I'm wondering if I'm in a little over my
head. Using SQL Mail I need to send out e-mails every hour for orders that
have shipped. There are two databases. One is SQL Server and the other is
only accessible via ODBC (I'm not even sure what type of ...