I need to create a user-defined function that can be called by the match
logic of a scheduled and event-driven subscription. The reason for the
function is not important.
Can I put in T-SQL statements in the application definition file to create

I am building a membership-based site and plan to use NS to send out various
kinds of scheduled and triggered notifications.
The first notification that will be sent out is a 'Welcome to the site!'
message.  Of course I could just send it out the old-fashioned way, but I am

I need to build a notification system that will send notifications
when a certain field changes in my database.  Other data for the row
may change, and that should not cause a notification to be sent.  I'd
also prefer not to create a column just to track when the field i'm

Does anyone know if the NS built-in SMTP Protocol supports custom SMTP
headers, and if not, are there any 3rd party components out there that do?

My database has a flag that indicates if our customers would like to
receive notifications.  Currently, our sales staff manages
subscriptions on behalf of our customers.  The settings for all
customers is the same, so its only a matter of enabling or disabling a

I have Windows Vista running with SQL Server 2005 and I need
Notification Services running on that machine. I have a batch file
which calls nscontrol with the appropriate parameters for the xml
appADF.xml and appConfig.xml files.

I use notifcation services to send notices to my applications. With
increasing load, I have concerns with scallability. In peak times, I
predict that I will have 300+ new events and 300+ notices per second.
This can be sustained for up to 10-15 minutes.

My boss asked me about this one:
We have an new application that stores documents (Word, PDF, etc) in a SQL
field of appropriate type (varbinary(max), I think). I know I can get this
data element into a Notification record and send it to the xslt formatter,

After scanning a document, can one load the resultant bitmap image into
Reporting services and be able to edit it.
eg. lets say a portion of the document was
   Name  : _______________

Perhaps somebody can point me to good step-by-step guide to solve my
very common task.
There is table "SomeTable". There is field "Status" there. Some
process need to process rows in that table when "Status"="Pending".

I installed Notification Services in our production SQL Server 2005 (SP1)
cluster servers. But I am not using it; do I still need apply changes to
following article ID: 931815?
Regards!

I have verified that Notification Services is installed following the
direction provided by KB931815. How do I stop the referenced NS Service
instance names "event provider, the Notification Services generator service,
and all the Notification Services distributor services". I ...

I have some data in my database which stores when a contract expires.
I'd like to send a notification 90, 60 and 30 days before the contract
will expire.
I'm having trouble coming up with a good event to trigger

I am fairly new to NS but learning more as the 'beast' grows!
I have a simple notification class that includes an integer field that, when
added at the end of an hyper-link, yields a valid link the user can click
right from within his/her e-mail to get more details.