I am using SQL Server 7.0 for a major Web Application and it presently resides on my computer. Last Friday SQL Server decided to give me an error message: “The instruction at “0x10001917” referenced memory at “0x00000010”. The memory could not be “read”.

SQL Server was shut down and my project would not work. It turned out to be SQL Mail Service. I have not used this feature and was told it was the greatest cause of such problems. We got SQL Server to work again and now I am told “we use SQL Server Mail Service for our web apps”. My questions are these:

1. Has anyone else experienced such a problem?
2. Does anyone else know of another way to provide mail service?

What bothers me is that no software was loaded on my machine or anything modified and this problem occured. I am worried about stability of SQL Server 7.0 - I thought such things would not happen. Oh well, it is a typical developer hope that something be stable.

Tom