Scripting will get you started with monitoring the Agents, but once you create it, you'll begin to find that you'll want to monitor each job, then the instance and the...

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Even though the drive is not listed, you can use a UNC path to backup to. Even if you receive a path error, you can use the default share...

Have you attempted to install an identical SQL 2000 instance and try an in-place upgrade? It may be to your advantage to see if SQL 2005 can convert an...