have you tried profiling the database to see if there are any oddities there?

you have 3 nodes

NODE A

NODE B

NODE C

run setup on NODE A and you would select "New SQL Server failover Cluster Installation". During set up you indicate which cluster nodes participate...

if the server is stand alone then there is no cluster, could you explain a little more please?

do you have a windows cluster configured and ready to go?

Have you created...

did you run DBCC UPDATEUSAGE as well?

yes, it wasnt until i tested it and was able to confirm it works that i now plug it into my DR processes

the other trick to recover from a dead master database is to take a backup of the master and restore it to a different sql instance as another name (i.e....

do you really need to log ship all 16 databases??

No George, the whole point is this

your master database is corrupt, you cant start sql to restore the database. You dont want to rebuild or you cant cos you dont...

larry Hennig (3/13/2009)

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The problem I desribed is that you cannot recover them unless SQL Server is running and you need at least master.MDF & master.LDF to start SQL Server in...

you're not alone, i was sure the c2 audit wrote trace files to the LOG folder as well as the default trace, shows how wrong you can be. Then, i...

this details it

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa196700.aspx

your welcome

it doesnt exist as you are not running sql...

no as Lynn pointed out id 2 is the default trace

what version of sql server is this as common criteria is only available in dev or Ent sql editions

so it sounds like it is common criteria, did you run the code Jack posted above?