When changing the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Account you might get back this rather alarming error message box: --------------------------- WMI Provider Error --------------------------- The process terminated unexpectedly. [0x8007042b] ---...

This one is a little odd: But, when using the new ' ADD SIGNATURE ' DDL in SQL Server 2005, if you are using SQLOLEDB through the SQLNCLI (SQL Native Client) protocol stack, i.e. the stack the new command line utility SQLCMD uses, you will get the following...

Late last week, I was using the new ' User Instance ' support in SQL Express 2005. I was connecting from home using Remote Desktop to my main office machine, and when trying to connect to SQL Express, I was becoming increasingly frustrated with the following...