Deleting the backup files on UAT instance will not affect the PROD instance. To delete the files you need to have FULL permissions on the folder. If you are making...

Please go through the SQL Server setup logs as explained in this article.

Duplicate post. All responses at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1070515-146-1.aspx

You can also enable Database Mail [/url]and configure the job to send an email when the job fails.

Most probably from the Help --> About screen.

AFAIK, it is easier for the PSS engineers to analyze the mdmp files and there are some symbols which are not available to everyone.

Since I am not an expert in...

The DBA has to contact MS PSS in this case. You may find this link useful in contacting PSS.

From the error message it appears that the SQL Server is under memory pressure and was not even able load "dbghelp.dll" which is required for generating the dump files.

It...

Do you get any errors if you run SQLAGENT.exe from the command prompt? This exe is usually located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Binn

I could not reproduce that issue. Since you are on SQL Server 2008 RTM, check if applying SP2 helps in resolving this.

You may find this article useful.

Even though this article refers to SQL Server 2008, it is applicable to SQL Server 2005 as well.

The SQLAGENT.* file which has a modified date of <=7:30 should have information how the SQL Server Agent was stopped.

If the Agent was not running under Local System account earlier,...

What is the issue? May be I have not understood it correctly.

SQL Server Agent seems to be running. Last update at 2011-02-08 13:00:07. Do you still see process id 2096 in the Task Manager?