Do you have the required priviliges to do that?

As what user you are logging on?

Check if all the Services are running in sql server configuration manager

check the protocols if they are enabled.

You sometimes get the same error, when you have entered a wrong userid/pwd.

Thanks for all the replies, I do regularly 5-10 restores a day or sometimes even more, but never seen this, I used to solve all the other issues I face...

are you connecting to the local server or remote server?

connecting using windows login/sqlserver login?

I missed it, the client was on SQL2000.

I was doing it with SSMS and the error was invalid value for STOPAT, something like that.

The issue is resolved now, as we have found the actual reason for the...

I dont think they are saved somewhere, it internally runs the same logic I said above and populates the values.

You need to customize your code to get the output.

Thank you, I was looking for some thing like this only.

I wanted similar to that as, I wanted to see the usage of the whole system, once we have done...

You can also check sp_who2 and see if there is any blocking happening!

What does hanging means here, is it the whole application or the part of the application, and if yes, then what part of the day...

if it is at specific time,...

When you run any query, its results get saved in @@error variable.If the earlier statement is correct then the value is saved as 0 else some number, search the sysmessages...