Can SQL 2005 notification services be configured to send a SMS message?
If it is possible what additional hardware/software is required?

I am very much new to Notification Services. I have to perform a task like
when ever there is some updations in one of my DB tables i have to get some
Alerts like an email. Then i came accross this Notification services. But i
dont know to acheive this functionality.

Can one specify the order in which datasets are executed in the report?
Thanks
Sanjeev
Order in which datasets executed

My requirement is to allow users to subscribe to notifications when a
task has been created, and also to schedule reminders that the task is
still pending. I have the notification at time the task is created by
an event-triggered subscription, and that works fine. I then created a

I am going through Shyam Pather's book to get myself up and running on NS.
His source CD has a utility that loads scheduled subscriptions into the
appropriate table.
I use it and assign a time zone of "(GMT-05:00 Ineian (East)" for my

I am new to NS 2005 and going through some samples from Shyam Pather's book.
I can create a NS instance, and register and enable it. But I am having
trouble getting the service to start.
I am working on an XP machine, connected to a domain. I had the domain admin

I have an event which may come into the Ns system.  The event is a
release of software.  A new version can sometimes be released two or
three times in a week.  In that case, I only want to deliver the last
event and discard the rest.

Does anyone know if sharepoint 2.0 has a feature that prompts new users to
change their password when they first access a portal?
Thanks.

I have NS installed on another machine seperate from a SQL 2000
server. I notice that when I start the NS service on the seperate
machine, the processor on the SQL 2000 spikes to approx 50% and
remains there contantly. When I run profiler I notice that the NS

Hello again,
Here's our current hurdle.  We have a certain event that translates
into 6000 notifications.  Our content formatter calls a web service.
Afer about 1000 notifications, IIS reports "Faulting application

We have built a custom content formatter which creates a report via
Reporting Services.
Unfortunately, for some subscribers, the report can take a minute or
more to generate.

i'm trying to set an Event Provider that will provide me with events
when a specific data changes in a specific table in the DB.
I've noticed that the built-in SQL Provider polls the DB using a
schedule and that doesn't help me.

I am new to NS, with some experience in using Files and email as the
main mechanism for notifying applications.
In my current scenario, I have a 2 tiered client-server system (.NET)
and I would like to leverage SQL Notification Services to send notices

I'm using the Sql 2005 NS book from Pather, and I got my notifications
working fine when they are delivered as the events arrive in digest
form.
I then, closely following the book, tried to add scheduled delivery,

I'm trying to debug my NS application.  Is there anyway to log the
actions which NS is taking?  Such as running subscriptions, processing
events, etc?