Is it me misinterpreting things, or is this going way back in time

PASS was a thrill !

5 days of dumping new features ,...

my first screenshot costed $400 for the screen and 25ct for the bullet

I allready ordered an "extra wide screen" to put all the little yellow workaround reminders

Aaarch .... It works ...

Now I hope I get used to work with this workaround

Thanks

well .....  a search for "ssc alzdba" did not return any results at all

a search for "msdtc alzdba" also did return zip

for what I tested that only worked where the name was stated in the text-zone of a reply

Warning : this query does direct access to system-objects ! They may change without warning with hotfix, sp, ...

This is what I use...

start with :

ALTER DATABASE yourdb Set RESTRICTED_USER , read_only WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

Restore database yourdb from .....

check your backup with

RESTORE LABELONLY

FROM disk=yourbackup-file

RESTORE HEADERONLY

FROM disk=yourbackup-file

and check the creation dates !

I guess you have restored an older version of master !

how about trying :

alter database yourdb set online

long shot ... but ...

did someone try to run the "copy database" wizard

It does a detach...

since you dev-server is less strict than your prod server, there might be problems at dev-side.

on the other hand, if there were to occur problems, the developers would have to...

I don't know, but I can tell you this is not a one to one operation.

You'll need to think about your join predicates to determine which part(s) to use in...

check msmdsrv.exe in taskmanager.

IF pss says so, accept it.  For the moment I cannot check because I nolonger have msAs available on a big...