thanks to all

apparently the physical displacement  implied by the operation I made was sufficient to eliminate at least a couple of systematic error messages (and blocking of sqlserver) ; so,...

example of error log (#### and $$$ are used to mask the real names)

the table PHI belongs to database $$$

is it normal that SqlServer doesn't respond when it's doing the dump ?

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2004-11-17 14:01:05.52...

thank you for these precisions (and for the french saying)

(i'm afraid I'm the system administrator and my own primary support provider too on this one...)

i had some weird message yesterday saying...

Yes I have a lot of .dmp files but very fex things in error logs aside the famous error: 0 ...

the problem is that my clients should be able to...