I am working with the Notification Workflow Solution Accelerator (a solution accelerator for MOM), and I am not finding any official support statement or guidance on running the application on a clustered SQL instance, and have found conflicting claims of support in the MS newsgroups. Since ...more >>

I made a change in the EventProvider section of my ADF, now I'm getting errors when I go to update my NS application. When I click the ADF, I receive this error. Any ideas? An error occurred when parsing the XML file. File Name: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\NotificationService...more >>

In the DB where I'm storing my data, I have flags on which records need to be processed through Notification Services, to make it easy for my EventsQuery to go grab them. These flags are set up the chain by the application. After processing, using the PostQuery argument, I was going to reset t...more >>

Hello, We are developing an application that requires some form of asynchronous callback to attached clients. Ideally, these events are user definable (well sysadmin definable) on the server and clients register interest in them when they connect. When such an event happens (table updat...more >>

We have a notification services installation that stops performing (or slows to an imperceptable crawl) almost weekly. This week, the Distributor stops (or crawls at) generating work items. We are getting plenty of seemingly valid notifications, but no work items are assigned We're hours behi...more >>

I'm at the first stages of trying to use Notification services with sql server 2000 to deliver phone messages with an outbound phone calling application. So at this stage I'm doing a lot of reading and searching before I actually start coding. I do know one requirement of my project is that ...more >>

Well lots of things really but anyways ;-) I have an existing app using sql server 200 tables. One of the tables is DeliveriesToBeMade, in it I have all the information about a scheduled delivery (whoto, when, what, HowToNotify - phone or e-mail, phone number e-mail address etc.) I'm looking...more >>

I've read (or heard - can't remember) that we should use the API to handle subscription management. Why not just the Stored procedures? If we've got our data in other databases, why not just link to the NS server, and execute the SP to get the subscription data over? ...more >>

Hi all Can anyone tell me how to know that the events generation is finished and notification generation has started. or the ns is doing distribution of mails. I would like to know what exactly ns is doing(at what stage it is) programmatically is it possible. Thanks in advance -- Reg...more >>

Are there any sample Subscription Management Apps out there that folks have done for NS 2005? Joe - I see that you've done one, but when I tried to build it, it told me that version 2.0 (I'm assuming the new NS stuff) wasn't compatible. Just was wondering if there were any other sample apps w...more >>

I am attempting to modify my existing Event Class, & add a subscription class. The basic summary is to send notifications to subscribers when a certain event happens within a user-specified radius of their subscribed address. So a user subscribes by inputting their address & desired radius - m...more >>

On win Xp Pro Machine with sql server 2000 notification services sp1 and sql 2000 dev ed. I am at task 4, trying to run AddSubscribers.vbs The line nsInstance.Initialize "StockInstance" gives me error code 80131500 The registry entries for the specified instance of notification services ...more >>

I installed notification services for sql 2000 on a win xp pro SP1 box with sql2000 developper edition. The installation went fine. Then I ran setupSamples SetupSamples MyComputerName\MyDomain\MyUser" "MyPassword" MyComputerName (Myuser on Mydomain is the way I normally logon to this machine...more >>

Is their any way to keep track of someone accessing our Database and also I need to get some notification when someone created any trigger, sp or tables in our db. Imtiaz ...more >>

Hi, I am running the (SQL Server 2000 Notification) SetupSamples.cmd as follows: SetupSamples.cmd "myDomain\myUsername" "myPassword" myPCName and get this error: .... (preceding omitted as seemed to work ok) Granting rights... Running OSQL with the following flags: -SmyPCName -E "C:\Prog...more >>

Does anyoen know how applicable are the books Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Notification Services and The Rational Guide to SQL Server Notification Services to SQL Server 2005? I am starting to dig into SQLNS, but would rather hobble on my own if a lot has changed between SQL2K and SQL2K5. Jaso...more >>

Are notifications what I use to have the server notify attached clients of certain events? Essentially I want clients to register interest in certain DB events. When they happen, the server is to notify all registered clients. Regards, Rob ...more >>

I have been attempting to register the windows service for notification services for the last few hours without success. The error message is always the same, show below. I've searched high and low through google groups and throughout the web to try and find a cause to this and have run out o...more >>

M$ SQL 2005 ASP.NET application on the same PC raises the exception: "The registry entries for the specified instance of Notification Services could not be found." ??? The "specified instance" is freshly created, registered, up and running. It worked fine on SQL 2000. ...more >>

Hi all, I've got some questions about using the Notification Services with Sql Server 2000. The problem is that I've to notify a remote Application about changes (insert, update, delete) in a certain set of database-tables via network. As far as I know, I've to use/implement IDeliveryPro...more >>

Hi, We have SQL Server 2000 but I am unable to locate the Notification Services for SQL Server 2000. Anyone know where I can get this? I've searched Microsoft and all I find is SQL Server 2005. thanks in advance...gary... ...more >>

Hi, It suppose to be real simple, but I can not find out how to do it. I have a SQL server and Web server on 2 separate PCs. When I create NSInstance object NS_Instance = New Microsoft.SqlServer.NotificationServices.NSInstance(NS_InstanceName) .Net tries to access NS right on the Web s...more >>

My events are firing and my email alerts are arriving. But all that arrives in the body of my message is the "<" character. It's like it's not finding my stylesheet definition. I just used the one from the template and replaced the field names with my fieldnames from my ADF. Below is my style...more >>

Hello, I have a install issue with the SQL Server Notification Service on Windows Server 2003 SP1, SQL Server 2000 SP4. During install it tells me I don't have the .NET Framework installed, How ever I'm sure I have the .NET Framework 1.1 running on the server. Is this a known issue? -- ...more >>

I have been working on SQL replication in a test environment, and after establishing a push subscription successfully, I turned my attention to notifications. I established and tested a MAPI inteface for SQL Mail. I created operators, enabled alerts, enabled email notification to the opera...more >>

Hi, I'm attempting to install Notifcation services database components on our SQL server, in preparation for installing Business Scorecard Manager. The server is Windows Server 2003 SP1 with SQL 2000 SP4. When i try to install the database components of Notification services i get the erro...more >>

Hi all, I am now using Notification Services 2005.I have done with the configuration and deployment of Notification Services 2005.Now i wanted to know how to send notifications via email with custom attachments. Please help me out in this issue too as earliest as possible. Joe,Thnx fo...more >>

Here is what I did to get an instance up and running (successful). Notice I have two groups of errors identified, both are in Step 3 and are preceded by lines I added in the format of "***** HERE IS THE <number> PROBLEM *******". (I included steps 1 and 2 just so you could see how I set thi...more >>

Hi we received duplicate notifications not because of maching rules but because of a strange proble. The Ns started events generation. But it was stopped before the notifications are generated. Again It was restarted resulting NS to generate events again.Now It has processed all the event...more >>