whats the error you getting?

I will suggest instead of changing the procedure, you should follow the policy.

Inform the person who have sufficient permission(like domain admin and system admin) on server for installation. Or...

it could be of many reason. One of the main reason is of network.

Also you can see the detail in replication monitor.

Seems like litespeed backup.

In addition to above point, you can put verification step just after backup job and keep writing the output in text file which you can...

just for testing can you restore the database from the file which you thinking is of full backup and then differential in some test environment.

I am assuming there is some...

for DTS, i will suggest to save them as file and then import them as file in ssms.

first of all it doesnt matter how many yrs of exp you have as sqldba what matters...

http://www.mssqlcity.com/Articles/Replic/SetupTR/SetupTR.htm

this is about 2000 but you will get basic idea about transactional replication.

Also if you search this website with your requirement then you will get plenty of useful information.

if both database are identical and you refreshing your database with live database by every 4 hrs then you can consider transactional replication.

Or

if you want your data also need to...

as it is mixed mode authentication, you can login with domain admin or if your windows id have enough permission on server and domain then connect the sql server with...

if you have 2008 run activity mnitor for the instances.

if you in 2005 there are dmvs to check this.

if in 2000 check in sp_who2 'active' and see blocking spid. then...

in perr-to-peer the other node is acting as subscriber, but as publisher. So both node will act as publisher and subscriber for each other

yes you can configure your production database for reporting purpose using log shipping.

for this you need to restore the database in standby mode so that you can read the...

use cursor to get the list of tablename and then run the insert statement in loop by taking tablename one by one

run this...

select name [database], suser_sname(sid) [owner] from master.dbo.sysdatabases

what it says? If still seeing the owner as your problamatic username then change it.