jasona.work (8/23/2016)
HappyGeek (8/23/2016)
I am going to guess and this is from memory, that it is the mapped drives that were the problem!I would in general suggest staying away from putting SQL files (database files or otherwise) on mapped drives. Generally, unless you or your sysadmins have set something up, the mapped drives won't map until someone logs into the server.
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Now, if the "mapped" drive is a SAN drive (for example, an iSCSI volume,) you have a different problem and should work with your sysadmins and SAN admins to resolve the issue.
Jason
Would totally agree and did hit the problem of mapped drives years ago; am in a new (very recent) post and have inherited a setup that has some "interesting" quirks, but advised they have never been a problem (my first task was to enable DAC on all servers).
Appreciate the sanity check 🙂
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