If I try to create a notification service instance where the SQL 2005
instance is having (\) in the name, it gives error saying that \ are not
allowed.
GS

    I would like to know whether it is possible to have a "subscription"
and yet "not send a notification" to a "subscriber". I so, how do I achieve
the same.
Thanks in advance.

I am looking at the documentation for the notification services and it
is mentioned that after creating the ADF and configuration files, when I
run the NSControl utility, it creates a new instance and application
database. In my application we are planning to have several ...

         I have set up a notification services using MSSQL Notification
Service 2005. The events are firing properly, and even the notification to
the corresponding subscriber is populated, but the delivery status shows
"Delivery failed". Can anyone tell me what could be the ...

Hi All,
I'm helping one of our developers with a NS application, and during testing
he asked me what the various values of the DeliveryStatusCode field
reflected..

How can I setup an alert on SQL7 and SQL2K for sending me an alert (email)
when the amount of available disk space on a certain drive crosses a defined
threshold? I do know how to setup email.
I wanted to also setup a similar alert for transaction log growth.

1.  When you update an instance and tables get new columns, etc. - say
for example you update a subscription class.  Is any data lost?  Are
tables dropped & readded?  I had a situation where I updated my
instance, and some new tables were created called

Is it possible to use CC: and BCC: functionality in SQL Server 2005
Notification Services when sending e-mail notifications?

Is it possible to have subscription fields that hold "multiple values". I
want to allow subscriptions for "records" of a certain category, but I need
to let my subscriber choose one or more categories. Is this supported in
SSNS? They may even choose not to filter the category (in ...

I've been reading Shyam's most recent book and have a question
regarding scaling-out with muliple distributors.  How does the SQL-NS
engine partition out the work to the different distributors?  Does it
use round-robinning or some other method?  There was no mention of how

I would like to know if we can have multiple "HostedProvider"(s) for a
single "Events" Class in the Notification Services 2005. If so, how do I
implement the same.
Also How can execute a stored procedure residing in a different Database, in

Hi NG,
We have a development database and from time to time some user or users will
issue a drop table and I would like to know the user who drop the table.
Is there a way to determine who and when the user issues the drop table DDL

I have a server with follow configuration:
OS: Windows Server 2003 SP1
Installed software:
- SQL server 2000 SP4 (default instance)

I installed Notification Services, but from reading Microsoft Walkthrough, I
can't figure out where to start and how to actually create a project. The
Walkthrough says in the part "design your application" that I have to decide
this and determine that; then the next step is ...

Just wanted to check whether we can specify multiple SMTP server names
for the same deliverychannelname and Protocol? The idea is to have a
backup server specified if the primary is not working for some reason.
Will this work?