In my shop, we have stand-alone Windows 2003 Server. The whiz-kid who runs this server (not me, I'm the "Syadmin Who Fixes Things"; I work closely with the "Sysadmin Who Fucks Everything Up") deleted ...

I'm new at this whole DBA thing, so maybe this is totally standard practice.<BR><BR>But we have a software vendor that wants remote access to our SQL server at an admin level to setup and install ...