Sorry but I don't really care about someone's reputation/points; I just care that they had responded to me. Even if I thought the answer was gibberish, it made me...

I'm with Revenant. I backed up daily ('belt and braces'). You only have to rebuild a server once to know that you never want to do it ever...

Thanks for all your help. I came to the same conclusion but needed to bounce the idea off someone else not connected in any way to either the suppliers...

Sorry GSquared....I didn't mean that you were retired (not interfering that you are as old as me) just part of the community

Welcome Tom.

That makes three of us. So long as we are not the 3 Stooges we should be fine.

All it says is that the service has stopped. Expanding the details doesn't show any further information. There are no other errors before or after the error (i.e....

Its hard to see what other detail I can give.

Its not a Windows service nor a default SQL Server one so it must have been provided by the...

Its neither a Windows service nor MS SQL Server service and is not normal to a standard SQL Server installation (if you get what I mean).

It is labelled SQL <service...

Love it!! I didn't think anyone had even heard of Pitman's these days! It was the...

Back in the 'old days' when there weren't STEM courses, most of us had quals in other subjects. Mine was Politics, Political Philosophy and Economics but oddly most of...

When you said about the 'bits of systems that they don't teach you any more', you are definitely on the same wavelength as me.

When I talked about linked lists, I...

Still trying to get hold of the consultant but will update as soon as I have got hold of the little sweetheart!

I haven't tried to move the databases yet. I have asked the Development team to ask the consultant why he wants these databases moved. The location he wanted...

This turkey will not fly

Thanks for the help