So far no breakthroughs...  I checked out the VIA setup, but it's deactivated across the board in our environment.  TCP/IP only on most servers, and a couple with Named Pipes...

Richard - did you earn your MCITP by buying books/attending classes/studying and then taking the tests, or did you go the Boot Camp route?   Trying to decide myself...

Thanks!

Ani - first of all, NICE avatar!  Makes me wanna crank up some "Roll Out" by Ludacris...  unfortunately, my best days of "rolling out" are behind me. 

Hmmm...  I thought for sure if you demoted the database to SQL Server 2000 compatibility level, made a backup, and then tried restoring that on a SQL Server 2000 instance...

Cool...  thanks Robert.  So far so good.

Anyone else out there with experiences with this they're willing to share?

I had all sorts of headaches getting SQL Agent / Database Mail to work consistently...  I can't really offer help in the line of a fix, but I can certainly...

Right on, Sean!  Finally somebody who gets it...  and isn't afraid to tell it (and possibly offend folks in the process)!

I work in an environment where everybody curses like a bunch...

At my current company, the DBA team is not Domain Admin, but has Local Admin on most (including all SQL) servers.  I've never seen a situation where this didn't suffice.  Part...

I can't speak for Jay, but I know that was the case for my database that was having the issue.  Is there anything other than setting the Compatibility Level from...

The saga continues...   now the job "succeeds", but clearly doesn't do anything, per the fact that no backups get created and the message in the log: 

Microsoft(R) Server...

Seth, I feel your pain...  Alas, I too have released many a scream (nowadays more like a whimper) when dealing with the joys of DB-Mail and SQL2005, in general.

Simply working...

Yes, but is there a way to fix it?  I'm struggling with 4 of these errors at the moment in a database I recently migrated from SQL2000.  Odd thing is,...

Good luck...   I installed a base instance and a pair of sub-instances on a server for evaluation of mirroring, and when clean-up time came I had a monster of a...

I successfully set up "safe mode" mirroring with a witness on the primary (server name) instance, principal on the "DEV1" named instance, and a mirror on the "DEV2" named instance - using...

I was just on the verge of sending a request to my manager about signing up for a local offering of M2733 "Updating your DBA Skills to SQL Server 2005"...

What...