Database Administrators/Technicalhttp://forums.blackbaud.com/forums/18.aspxenCommunityServer 2007 SP2 (Debug Build: 20611.960)SQL SRV 2005 setuphttp://forums.blackbaud.com/forums/thread/23243.aspxFri, 30 Mar 2007 18:46:52 GMTf90a95a0-00e2-4810-8af8-0bbdde08f853:23243George Leventis0http://forums.blackbaud.com/forums/thread/23243.aspxhttp://forums.blackbaud.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=18&PostID=23243Hi Cody, For what it's worth, I asked our DBA here and he sent me the following message: use master GO grant view server state to myUser and to remove it: revoke view server state from myUser Hope that helps! - GeorgeSQL SRV 2005 setuphttp://forums.blackbaud.com/forums/thread/23234.aspxFri, 30 Mar 2007 13:19:30 GMTf90a95a0-00e2-4810-8af8-0bbdde08f853:23234Cody Ensanian0http://forums.blackbaud.com/forums/thread/23234.aspxhttp://forums.blackbaud.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=18&PostID=23234new to DB administering..... just installed sql server 2005 on a new server, install re7.81, i need to apply "view server state" permission to my windows users that access RE... how do i do this??