If you are looking for a book to walk you through examples, you may want to look at:

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services - Essential Skills for Database Professionals ...

Is the stored procedure only used for this report?  Do you have permission to create stored procedures?  I did something similar recently and did as much work as possible in...

This is classic, the programmer told me this was the connection string they were using.  But when I looked at the program I FINALLY found one little problem:

Initial_Catalog

that should have...

More good information....

From what I've read so far, I'm guessing my biggest headache will be 3rd party software, which on my server is mostly Accounting related and I also support...

Thanks, this looks like the information I'm looking for and the ownership chain information may be helpful, too!

I may have skipped through this email too quickly, but I did go to several links and did not find any information on MCP certifications.  Are there specific MCP certifications...

Stopping the backup was not my decision. AND, all backups were already in just one folder. Network Services stopped the backup of both drives, when they began using...

Are the source and destination databases on the same server?

Have you looked at the collation setting of the data columns? In SQL EM, right click on the tablename, select Design Table. Select/highlight the column containing the data....

Is your Veritas backup using the 'SQL Server database' option? (allows it to backup open database files - Tech made it sound like this was a big deal, but I...

Like you I assumed the tape would be slower. So I looked at the backup logs of some databases that I have been backing up to disk and Tech has...

This posting has produced a lot of good information about backups. Thanks to everyone who replied. It helps to hear from people who have had similar experiences. ...

Excellent point, I didn't realize that the SQL backup for Veritas was an additional cost. Which means, our Tech Mgr just decided on his own that he was going...

BOY does this sound familiar! However, if I was told to report to our Tech Mgr, I would have to quit - and I've been here for 25 years! ...

Another one of my fears, the Veritas backup doesn't work. Not that long ago, I needed a restore for a particular day for a NON-SQL Server Accounting file and...