I have an environment with MSDE SP3a happily running on a laptop (under a
local service account). But when I log on to the company's network (using
Novell client) something changes with the service account and MSDE does not
start up.  It works OK after resetting the password of the ...

I have error when installing the MSDE 2000 rel. A on a
WinXP professional edition no matter using the command
line or the .ini file to set up. Can anyone give me soem
clues to solve this problem? thanks

Are there any compatibility issues between Microsoft SQL Desktop Edition and
SQL Server 2000 Personal Edition Compatibility.
I would like to install one packaged application that uses MSDE 2000 and a
second packaged application that uses SQL Server 2000 Personal Edition.

I need to develop a small database, but don't know which
system to choose.
I don't know if MSDE has a good cooperation with (SQL)XML.
Can anybody tell me if MSDE can work with this tool.

I tried to connect to MSDE_SP3a using dynamic port from client machine
1.I set 0 to the port in server machine, using ServerNetworkUtility
2.I restart MSDE, and I see that port is configured new value(like 1500)
3.Now I boot isql utility from Client machine(installed SQL-DMO), and I ...

Is the Maintenace Plan feature available for MSDE?
Thanks,
Ben

I have/had been using MSDE in Visual Basic.NET
This was installed from an OFFICE PROFESSIONAL Disk I have I believe.
My computer lost the BOOT SECTOR of my Windows XP Hard Disk and I have since
reinstalled WINDOWS on that same disk and am in the process of reinstalling

Client: ASP.Net C#
Server: MSDE
2 CPU/3GB RAM machine
at beginning, RAM for MSDE is 80MB

We have a MSDE on a W2K server installed. It is running fine and the
application can access it without a problem. We have another server on that
same subnet that has an SQL 2000 server installed. When trying to connect to
the MSDE via the Enterprise Manager, only the local SQL shows ...

I have MSDE running on a Win2000 Pro workstation and it
works fine for the localhost, but I'm having trouble
having remote users connect to the MSDE databases.
I am using Windows only authentication and all users are

I am having a huge problem trying to get MSDE to install. The problem
reported in the error log is:
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Starting custom action InstallSQLAgentSecurity

I installed MSDE on Win2000.  Ran SVRNETCN to enable TCP.
From a remote machine (local intranet) I use ACCESS 2000 to create
a new Project (Database).  I log in using my windows login name and
password (on the 2k box which has administrator rights) but I am not

I installed MSDE but I am not totally sure how to use it.
Could someone please point me to a good tutorial.. I would
like to use MSDE in an both asp.net app as well as a c#
windows app.

Following an earlier email I run setup.exe with parameters to produce a log
file. The log file is about 2.8Mb and I get the errors (Return Value 3)
......
Loading extended custom action library sqlcax.dll

I have this big problem i can't solve, i searched all along and googled, but
nothing solved.
Here's my problem:
i need to access msde behind a nat (port redirection).