But do you see other errors before that which might be connected to the restart fail?

John makes a good point about the log file. Find out what service SQL Agent...

bleary

I think Computer Associates might have a tool too, but I don't know the name of it off the top of my head. Might look at Pragmatic Works. I don't...

Check the Application and System logs in Event Viewer. That might help you track down the source of the issue.

Is this a standalone server or a clustered node?

Is this a...

Thanks, Chris. That does help.

If you're looking for items outside of SQL Server entirely, that's not only a registry issue, but a possible Active Directory issue. There is no way for to use T-SQL...

What Sag999 said. It depends on what transactions get committed and written to the data file during the backup, if any.

And if your database backup is taking two hours, you...

People are going to lynch me for this first question, but...

When was the last time you rebooted the box?

Has SQL Server Agent run before on this box or is...

I don't know if it's the reason for this particular error message, but you do need .Net framework before you install SQL Server. In fact, you need several components for...

Remember that connections are different from threads. One connection can spawn many threads.

Which is it you're trying to control? Connections or threads?

kajf (10/20/2010)

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Below query gives me all straight relations (have not created a BundleID but in this easy case I can set an unique BID per A) .

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Result:

A3C3

A4C4

A4C5

Is it a good...

Kaj,

Here's why no one's responded yet. Your question breaks down at this point.

kajf (10/20/2010)

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I have a table AC containing two attributes A and C which have a many-many relationship. What...

Do us a favor? When posting your DDL statements, remember to put quotes around string values that are to be inserted. It makes it easier on us when we don't...

chris.stuart (10/21/2010)

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When I say manually, I love editing the packages outside of BIDS, and in 2008 it works much better (manual edit of the package) where as in 2005 I...

RICHTER-311234 (10/20/2010)

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I have rebuilt the index and ran a updatestats full on the index I am wanting both queries to use, Just a bit at a loss as to what...