Okay, I can now connect but in the object explorer the status is blank. The indicator next to the server name is blank instead of red or green.

Any ideas?

First i would like to thank all of those that offered help. It turns out that the Network team has been making changes and forgetting to let us know. They...

The server is a local server on the inside of the firewall. I have tried both SQL and Windows logins and I can not see it. I can not browse...

I do have a Server just sitting here to repalce any server that has hardware problems.

I have mail messages set up for every job and every alert.  The reporting side...

Did you see any errors in the windows event log?  You can also ty using somthing else to review the errorlogs, I have had the  same issues opening it via...

Issue solved. ( Sounded better in my head as Inspector Clouseau then written down.) Anyway, here is what I found. As stated befor the problem occured when ever the backup...

Thanks allot, I will take a closer look at it.

I need to create a report every Monday morning. I was thinking I would populate the database nightly at midnight.  Then show a report for the week and post updates...

I have to monitor space on all windows servers, most are Dell servers with a few HP servers.

I found your comments on religious statements should have more brief and to the point. I agree that there is no place in an interview to make...

I have also had isues with this. In a pinch I have backedup the database then chenge the database to simple recovery mode then back to full and it cleared...

I also have to copy the backups to other servers. The way I handled it was first to create my normal backups with expiring backups.

Then I...

I would also like to thank everyone as I also had this problem today. This fixed the issue.

I thought that he had a Maintenance plan set up to get all non system databases every night.

I have had a long talk with him on the subject. I hope...

SQL Server 2000 Standard. He recovered master because it was also corrupt. (He had a back up of that).

We have rebuilt everything on...