Doesn't sound like it on this server. Is the msdb database on-line? The only time I have seen a problem like...

Sounds like a permissions issue. What account is this script running under?

Are you hiding the whole report or just the details row? When I have hidden the details row I have never seen a blank area.

We've all been there. Just yesterday I was fighting with using a variable in SSIS for an Excel connection and it was because I had mispelled the file name...

I have learned in my close to 3000 posts on this site, that the reason someone has posted...

I don't know if this will work with 2005, but there is a custom extended stored procedure called xp_smtp_sendmail available here that worked great in 7.0, 2000. Your other...

If the file does not have free space you cannot shrink it. Does the file have free space? Is it a database file or a log file?

I did not mean for you to disable remote connections, I was just commenting that they do not need to be enabled when you are on the console. Since...

Are you sure that the SQL Server is SQL 2000? This script works fine on SQL 2005 as well. I don't have a 7.0 server to try it...

I think you are asking how to assign a null value to a parameter in ADO.NET. So that is what I am going to answer.

You would do something like...

My current employer would pay for training as needed if I can show a need for the project(s) I am working on. I value training highly and that is...

Don't know how the big sites do it. Probably something like full-text query and some highly proprietary stuff as well.

If you are running SSMS on the console then you should not need remote connections enabled. Try localhost\instance.

If I understand what you are saying you want to parse the formula to get the names of the inputs for the formula. You should search this site for...

You should look at snapshots. Check out BOL for this. There is not a native way to read and query backups, there may be a tool out there...