and good luck getting your medical data from a hospital without doctors orders-- have been down that road more time than I care to count-- most hospitals will not give...

we backup 60 or so SQL servers with hundreds of databases. they backup to the same file (.bak) every nite, each database has its own file. The tape backup system...

The thing that saves my hide is I have a series of email queries (including server logs that get sent in the emails) that arrive at my desk first thing...

another wrong answer. I ran the query (one very similiar actually) and it runs fine in developers edition.

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Foolish Question, bad answers. Typical.

2000 SP3 and later, and 7 sp4 and later work. They mark 2005 wrong (of course you can upgrade it, from std to enterprise for...

I have a ton of Microsoft certs. In the past few years they haven't been nearly as well recieved as they were in the past. Lately I've begun to wonder...

thanx- it's good to know for next time.

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Just as a footnote- you can't start a sql agent job if it's not running. Sqlagent service should be continuously running. We called microsoft. Turns out the sql uninstall doesn't...

no encryption, no ssl, reporting services is not running.

Just a plain jain install, domain account, just about everything but reporting services enabled.

Just found out data protection manager won't...

nothing in the error logs (no sqlagent out log), I used the sql startup and windows service startup and configuration manager startup.

net start only works locally, the sc command in 'dos' will query any of the services or all of them, stop or start services. We used to use sc scripts...

dbcc has a 2 fix features, one of which will not allow data loss and one which will , it's in BOL.

Backup the database first in case the fix goes...

please put link up on ms website, I've been trying to buy it for 2 weeks now.

(developers edition)

Thanx

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