I have a small issue digesting the post

Situation before:

1 Production server A (reel or virtual)

Situation in between

Cloned A to create developserver B (vm)

Current situation

Prod A reel

Dev B virtual

Do A &...

1) Check the sql server logs/windows log on a more detailed info.

2) Is the windows 2003 patched (service pack 2 seems to be current)

3) Are there any issues on the...

What is the foreign key FK_tb_vessellic_vsl_fsh_tb_lkpports_prt_fsh2?

How does @ID get filled in, I only see @IDINT

there is a new hotfix rollup

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9c9ab140-bdee-44df-b7a3-e6849297754a&DisplayLang=en

build 2187

find out why they failed at the job logs? Anything curious in the server log?

in addition I would also export it to some text file(s) in case future sql versions won't support the old database format

The reindexing isn't a bulk operation.

I would try to make extra transactionlog backups during the indexing to keep the size small

*fingers crossed*

You can find those with

update ...

set myfield=left(myfield,1)+'xyz'+right(myfield,len(myfield)-4)

where myfield like '_abc%'

Are you working with sql authentication or integrated security (windows authentication)?

Are the servers up & running?

Could it be the new security settings for MSDTC in Windows 2003?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/debuggingmsdtcissues/1257/

See you then!

There certainly must be a script around for this.

Job history is maintained in the msdb database. sysjobhistory system table

Is the other side also windows 2003?

Is there a firewall in between?

This post mentions also another utility dtcping

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=455113&SiteID=1

just for future reference

dtstester: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293799

Any chance that the other connecting machine isn't a windows 2003 machine?

In that case you need to set some security options for MSDTC.

Might find the kb back on monday.