'Bleeding edge' where the newest leading edge technologies and ideas are being used and the budget is haemorrhaging. Usually one down from vapour ware but when someone has started paying...

I just had a similar error message but it was happening when I tried to open Management Studio to an instance where I had just deleted a test database (just...

Just came across the error myself.

Msg 16950, Level 16, State 2, Procedure sp_MSforeach_worker, Line 31

The variable '@local_cursor' does not currently have a cursor allocated to it.

The statement has been terminated.

The...

Something slightly off the topic, but you may have dealt with it when concentrating on the io of disk management, is the idea of having the hard disk formatted...

I've been told that using a RAID is better as you have more disk heads doing the io and have the fall over safety. We've had the TempDB on a...

This may be a bit late, but you can check your settings in the Windows Services that have options for restarting after failure. The Start Up Type : Automatic doesn't...

That's good to know it's not just my computers.

Cheers

Fred

I had a similar error stating "sp_MSset_subscription_properties has too many arguments" while setting up transactional rep. from a server on 2003 (SQL standard) to and XP desktop (personal SQL). I...