You can't backup the database and tlogs at the same time. Your T-log backup will fail.  It's pointless to try anyway, because your full backup is backing up everything.  Run...

I did this with good results when I needed to change the length of a field in a replicated table. -- Specifically: Drop a table from...

There's also the syssubscriptions table in the publication database that references the subscription database name.  Trying to change things this way sounds frought with problems. i think you'd be better...

You want to replicate from ServerA to ServerB, and from PROD_DB to TEST_DB ... (databases with different names)  ??   Sure. I don't have any databases with the same name.

I found the problem. The user's Windows account needed to be in the Distributed COM Users group on the server. 

Thanks ... I probably should have given some more information to narrow it down. Another developer has "sysadmin" rights, and he doesn't have any problem.  Neither do I, also sysadmin....

I tried a few with the wizard and they succeeded. But I can't figure out how to edit them. How do you open the damn things ?  I connect to...

I use different maint plans for backups & trans logs without a problem. If the log backup tries to run while the full backup is running, it will fail, but...

If all else fails, perhaps you could install it as a different instance.

FYI   IE 6.0

Here's my version:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].TableSchema(

[table_name] [sysname] COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,

[column_order] [smallint] NULL,

[column_name] [sysname] COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,

[column_datatype] [sysname] COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,

Our Financial package, Lawson, required that collation for their database. All our other databases use the "normal" collation. We have a few situations where we join tables between Lawson and...

Without knowing the details, it sounds like DTS should do the job.

In either 2000 or 2005, you can have SQL generate the change script for you, then cut & paste it to run against your other tables. That's what we do....

There are also different collations within English. For example, most of our databases use a collation that is case INSENSITIVE, but one of our databases requires a collation that is...