David,

you have your database file so the data is not lost yet, whatever you do keep that .mdf (and hopefully .ldf) file safe.

As I see it you have two options...

view the stored procedures or run them? they would also need exec permissions granted on the stored procedures to run them.

george.schwalbe (1/8/2010)

It is...

laymans terms is difficult, what you need to do is quite technical.

You need to rebuild your system databases and then restore those databases from .bak files if you have them....

If you wish to go down this route I would have thought allowing vendors to post articles would be best. these could be held under a group heading to allow...

As I feared you have lost your system databases in the uninstall. Do you have backups of the master, model and msdb databases (*.bak files).

From what Andrew says and the...

sounds like you need to try and start it and if it won't start post the errorlog, or at least the last part of it with any errors.

I believe informatica is one such tool that can do this.

Jeffrey Williams-493691 (1/7/2010)

Once you have more than a...

you can also check status\start sql server from services applet - mssqlserver and sqlagent services

hopefully you also have a file called MSSmallBusiness_log.ldf which is the other part of the database required to complete it, in which case you can attach normally via SSMS.

Is the...

true, but its a good way to sort the wheat from the chaff 🙂

Any ideas for a new term for it?

Unfortunately, that's the bad part of working in a compliance industry. They do keep track of who's searching what and the google searches for topics on which you are supposed...

well if someone said to me its an active\active cluster I would know what they meant, so that's good enough for me. 🙂

simon.murin (1/7/2010)

Well, I don't like to open a can of worms, but there is...