One of our IT staff is setup in the securityadmin role to be able to change
users passwords.  When she attempts to change the user's password, it asks
her for the old password before allowing her to change.  A system
administrator doesn't get this prompt for the old password.

Can I install Standard or Enterprise Versions of SQL 2005 on Windows XP Professional.Per our IT policies, we can not use server version of OS, and at the same time we wanted to play and test out all features of SQL 2005.Features like Online Indexing, Notification Services, and ...

I have a Dell Poweredge 6850 server with 8GB RAM, running Windows 2003
Enterprise (32 bit) OS. This server only runs SQL Server 2005 Standard
Edition, and is not yet in production environment.
Can someone please outline the steps I need to take in order to get SQL to

I've just installed SQL Server 2000 to a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise
Edition.
I need to move the SQL databases fom an online SBS2003 Premium Edition to
this new installation (CRM, possible Sharepoint?).

I'm installing SQL Server 2005 (Developer edition) side by side with SQL
Server 2000 on my laptop and I'm logged in as Administrator. I'm running
Advanced Server 2000 SP4.
I installed SQL Server 2005 kinda ok but had an error with the "Notification

Does anyone know if I still need to install the feature packs individually
after installing RTM and before applying SP1, or are the feature packs now
included in SP1?

I want to move my databases from an old server to a new one.
We have bought new hardware and installed sqlserver.
New Version is sqlserver 2000 with sp4.
Old version was sqlserver 2000 with sp3.

Just curious, when you open the stored procedure in EM, can you make the
font a little bigger?  I don't think you can but I just want to make sure.
i am using sql server 2000.
thanks

I have SQL Express SP1 on my workstation, and also the sql 2005 developer
edition tools.  When I try to run the full SP1 upgrade to update my Dev
edition components to SP1, I get an error that says "Unable to install
Windows Installer MSP file"

Hi, I have just installed SQL Server 2005 and I am trying to connect to
it with a COM application that uses ADO/ODBC to connect to the
database.
It worked fine with SQL Server 2000, but now I can't create a ODBC

I have installed VS 2005 Professional with the express edition of SQL 2005
Can I work with SQL Mobile from VS 2005 with only the express edition of SQL?

We are having problems with multiple users trying to use SQL 2000 Client
utilies on a Win 2003 box running Terminial Services Applicaton Server Mode.  
Are there any configurations we need to do in order to allow multiple users
to use the client utilities when on a server running ...

We are using a windows 2003 sp1 server running  sql2005 witth the folowing
services:
SQL Server
SQL Server Agent

I have installed SQL Server 2005 on just one server and in a clustered
environment and have noticed a difference. In a non clustered environment
there are three User groups that were created that are not in my clustered
environment ... SQLServer2005MSFTEUser$<ServerName>$SQL2005, ...

 How come I am not able to see anything about the
newly installed localsqlserver instance in my pc?
I though that I had installed successfully ss2k5 locally.
(at least that is what appears like). But I only