matt,

yes, they do. the problem is the customers.

for example, some of you may have heard on the news about the SQL.Slammer work that's circulating the the 'net since last firday. It searches for 'vulnerable' MS SQL Server installations to take over and use to spread itself. I've been quite this past weekend because I've spent the past 72+ hours making sur emy company's computers are not susceptable to this. Luckily our network folks kept this worm from getting into our network. As for our database boxes, I've been responsible for roughly 100 SQL Servers for the past several years ... they were 100% protected against this. However, this situation has finally gotten me the assistance I needed to scan all of our complete networks and I now know that we have around 560+ boxes.

ugh. life sucks. MS released a fix for this hole last summer. I had it on all my boxes. the remaining 460+ ... let's just say that I'm very, very tired right now and do *not* like many customers.

However, thanks to our network folks and the DBAs who've worked with me, we've not had a single occurance of this damnable worm in-house. {sigh}

pat----