A very short list:

Inside SQL Server 2000 by Kalen Delaney

SQL Server 2000 for Experienced DBAs by Brian Knight

The 3 Guru's Guide books by Ken Henderson

There are tons more, which I'm...

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Does the user specified by xxx\yyyy have write access to where the backup file is being written to on the file system / network share?

They should at least be on separate logical drives. You'll probably want to get with your storage architect/administrator to determine the best way to allocate space on your given SAN....

It sounds like you have a double hop issue. Here's what's going on when you run a report... You're connect to the SSRS server using Windows authentication. The report is...

Take a look at Scriptio from Microsoft MVP Bill Graziano. It does the job quite nicely. You will the .NET Framework 2.0 installed.

Great minds think alike.

The service master key being different is not an issue. The database master key is generated from your user supplied password and the 3DES encryption algorithm. With respect to generating...

Our quorum drives aren't that small. They're basically 36 to 72 GB, whatever the smallest physical HD is for the array. We RAID 1 mirror those. The same is true...

I understand the rationale... if a web server is compromised he is trying to protect the SQL Servers, too. One of the things some folks do is make heavy use...

Are you talking about SQL Server 2005 itself or service pack 1 for it?

Clustering is a high-availability solution that mitigates a hardware failure. Basically, you have two or more servers all capable of serving up SQL Server. Should the one server go down...

Another one here:

Bug Details: SQL Server Integration Services service failed to start after installing SP1

This one is the "Failed to start in a timely manner" error.

There is a report of this bug in the MSDN Product Feedback. If you can validate that you're having the bug, too, you can click on the link for that...

Try this:

SELECT so.name [Table], si.name [Index] 
FROM dbo.sysobjects so
  JOIN dbo.sysindexes si
    ON so.id = si.id
WHERE INDEXPROPERTY(so.id, si.name, 'IsUnique') = 1
  AND so.xtype = 'U'
ORDER...