Oh no! You mean I gotta learn how to use this server also? ....lol! I've been using it for about 7 years and this was the first time it ever...

I finally ended up deleting the whole server, reinstalling it, then reattached the database. Works fine now! Many thanks for your help.

Yup, I can smell the smoke now...

Server: Msg 8966, Level 16, State 1, Line 3

Could not read and latch page (1:278) with latch type SH. sysindexes failed.

I'll take a look...

Is there a way I can specify the database when I run CHECKTABLE in the query? When I open up thr query analyzer, I get an error message "ODBC SQL...

The results on this looked fine:

CHECKDB found 0 allocation errors and 0 consistency errors in database 'nowandthen'.

But, I still can't see either the databases (northwind or any others), just SQL...

I've been trying to do that, but I am having problems with the syntax since I've never run that command before. I don't want to have someone do this for...