All,
We tried backing up our DW SQLServers via Veritas BackupExec 11D since the
DW DBs are huge but we are getting errors in some of the SQLServers.
All our SQLServers versions are :

Good Day,
As I understand it an application user searching for a SQL Server
instance needs to search the system registry. Could someone let me
know which registry keys the application user needs to find and read?

Just pushing Leila down, she still hasn't fixed her system.

I am trying to import/transfer data tables from an existing MS SQL
2005 Express Adv install to an MS SQL 2000 Standard install (on
different boxes) but it is not working.  It's seems to be failing with
the above mentioned error.  Can anyone help with this?

 Does anyone know how to (or if) it is possible to take tables from
MS SQL 2005 Express and wedge them into a MS SQL 2000 instance?
REALLY WOULD LIKE TO KEEP THAT DATA! :)
Cheers,

I installed SQL Server 2005 with the default authentication method.
Now, I cannot login to the database engine.
The methods described in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188670.aspx
don't work because they required  an already establishee connection

I have backups that have been running nightly without issue for quite some
time.  To minimize data loss in the event of a major server disaster I setup
log shipping.  I want to know if I can continue to perform the nightly
backups or if this will interfere with the log file ...

We have a sql database with size 50GB. In the last couple of weeks the
transaction log on 20GB has to be truncated daily with 13GB of daily log
data. The database itself is only growing by a small amount. Is there any way
of monitoring which processes/users/t-sql are inserting ...

Hello, sorry if this is a dumb question.
We have a database with a Full recovery model and we do a full backup every
night.   As a result of the full recovery model the transaction log keeps on
growing and growing, to the point where space is becoming a concern.  The

In exploring a high-availability solution which doesn't involve using
windows clustering services
I arrived to a configuration with 2 sql servers in transactional replication
(active/passive)

Wednesday Eve
Vista Business
SQL 2005 info at bottom of message
I am attempting to install/setup BVsoftware's estore demo. I get an error:

It looks like I can use this edition for a web application so I guess it
would support multi-users? Thanks

Gurus,
Running SQL Server 2005 SP2.  I am attempting to run the SQL Server Database
Engine Tuning Advisor.  I have selected the database I wish to analyze and
clicked on "Start Analysis" but an error in the bottom-right corner said

I have inherited a system that has a series of DTS packages that are
run sequentially as a scheduled job.  The 1st step run a batch file,
which in turn runs a small java application which writes a number of
CSV files which are used by later packages.

I am trying to extract data within the first set of parenthesis in a string
that often times have multiple sets of data ..for example
(22)(223)(45)  I just want the (22)  or
(234)(12)...here just need the (234)