It's pictures like that that make me envy you high country dwellers (NJ just aint that exciting).

I would love to get out that way more often (I had a great...

I tried restore with verifyonly and fileleistonly. I got the same error from both:

Msg 4038, Level 16, State 1, Line 1

Cannot find file ID 1 on device 'g:\temp\asco_prod_meta.trn'.

Msg 3013, Level...

9.0.3042

Steve Jones - Editor (9/24/2009)

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I'm one of those that does think everyone should learn a low level language. I'm not sure I'd say assembler, but I think everyone should still...

A bit OT but this bears on the subject

http://www.salon.com/books/int/2009/09/19/better_pencil/index.html

blandry (9/23/2009)

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Imagine finding a doctor for some serious operation that way!!! It's insanity. We ask if the person is an MD and hope they graduated from a recognized...

ho hum.

Certainly there is an interest in getting a fast new processor, but other than performance levels, it does not really change my job any. You deal with a slow...

Ok here is more info... and it gets strange.

I rebooted the SQL server (ugh, I don't like doing that)

Tried a couple of jobs and they ran fine and assumed things...

True.

But to take a classic old example, C++ did nothing that was not doable in C (early C++ simply translated to C), but properly used it enabled enormous improvements in...

No, I tried with another known working account. Additionally this account is still working on our old SQL2000 machine (that one is ODBC).

I don't use RAID. I'd rather use several copies on separate devices. My backing up is done to USB hard drives which run only when I am doing a backup,...

I get the same basic error when using openquery. I don't have a .net making a similar call (and I'm not a .net programmer, so there would be considerable...

The AS400 folks have assured me again that no changes have been made.

Further info

I've reinstalled the IBM oledb components.

Tried to recreate the linked server and getting the same error.

Tried re-doing the provider

None of the above changed anything.

Brad M. McGehee (8/10/2009)

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I have asked for the typo to be fixed, as I don't have permission to do this myself, and I am still waiting for it to be...