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This was during the day, yesterday. There was nothing strange about the firewall and I could always connect to it before. My application runs on their server, so it should always be able to connect. Once they rebooted it, I was again able to connect through Enterprise Manager, and my software...

Hmmm, Enterprise Manager couldn't connect to mssql2 at all. Even if it could, it would tell me the service state of the sql server, but it couldn't. That tells me that either mssql2 was down or it was disconnected from the internet somehow... and, if my site couldn't connect to it, I'm...

It seems as though mssql2 is down. Can you advise? thanks, -Dave

Yash is right -- you really only need a dedicated IP for SSL encryption since the SSL package envelopes the HTTP Header... and it's this header which is normally used to share IP addresses between domains. And no, you won't see a speed difference between shared and dedicaetd IP addresses. -Dave

Yes, you can use Enterprise Manager (and/or iSQL) locally to administer your database, but I'm not sure how you would otherwise do it...? For those of you interested in this, simply create a database ID and password in HSphere, then use Microsoft Client Network Utility (which was installed with...

What do you mean by "hosted databases?" Thier SQL servers are located in their local network so it's pretty much as fast as it can be. Without a direct SQL link driver, you are pretty much restricted to an ODBC connection. Now, the only question is if you want it to be connected through a DSN...

I read a lot of questions here about SQL database connection trouble... the old hosting company I was with had these questions too. You know, not everything has to be a DSN connection. Some would say a DSN-less connection is even faster. Here's an example DSN-less connection string on...