Several very good third party tools. Check this out (and search this site for user postings):

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Product+Reviews/fourofakindbackupsoftwareshootout/1612/

No. Shows the importance of full backups on a regular basis. You could've then at least done a log backup and re-played it to a point in time, provided your...

As far as a framework, Jeff Moden posts this link in his signature (and I believe others do as well).

It makes it very clear what should be posted...

Sweet, that worked. After beating my head against the wall for a couple of hours, I figured I'd post and hope for a quick response (I have a tendency to...

Lynn Pettis (6/25/2008)

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I was manually zipping backup files using PKZip. and it did a great job. Problem was: 1) it was manual, and 2) it was time intensive.

Using HyperBac...

As long as the mdf/ldf files all have unique names, you can merge the files into one folder and then attach the databases the same way you did the others....

EXEC sp_change_users_login 'report'

and no users shown as orphan, and i can now open all the databases, tnx to all the help guys. Do i still need to do this AUTO_FIX...

And be aware, salaries and raises could be based on title (at least my experiences). Managers are good at finding salary ranges for "titles" and geographic region from various resources...

Seems you had mutliple instances running on the same server (perfectly acceptable), the default and at least one named instance. Which master database to attach? Why not use the one...

Loner (6/23/2008)

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Now I know why 99% of DBAs want telecommute !!!!!! They don't need to go through the back door because they don't even show up at the office. ...

Use sp_attach_db with the same .mdf/.ldf files. Simply put one of them on a separate physical disk(s) and your path statements in sp_attach_db should reflect those paths.

More competition = more products = lower cost to consumers (usually, depending on product type). As stated, get the evals and compare.

As I'm usually the first IT person in each morning, I go directly into the server room (first door on the right after entering the office, so I guess it's...

Sounds like a MDAC issue. Can you reinstall MDAC?

Edit - Found this link (which kind of confirms my original post):

http://codegroups.com/blog/index.php/unable-to-connect-to-server-server-msg-11-level-16-state-1-microsoftodbc-sql-server-driverdbnetlibgeneral-network-error-check-your-network-documentation/

Here is an article from this site. May provide a little more insight.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/2605/