Could this post be moved to 'Administration' ...

I apologize for the miscategorization ...

This is a very good and knowledgable community. However for the best results I'd suggest that you get hold of a contractor for a short term assignment for this task...

As a personal 'best practice' I ALWAYS reboot after SP or hotfix installations. You never know when you are going to run into that one instance that will drive you...

The typed in source code ??? yeah !

... sorry I couldn't resist ...

Yes. Now, is your recovery model 'SImple' or 'Bulk-Logged' if it is you have large transactions running that may be causing the issue (you do not need transaction log backups)....

Try giving Admin read/write access to the directory on asian50 (least privilege rule).

platform=operating system

Supportde Oracle 'platforms' off of the top of my head are:

Unix (Solaris, HP, AIX, and others)

Linux

Windows (NT4, 2000, ?2003?)

IBM Mainframe

I've installed it on 2 SQL servers presently (one my test server and the other my desktop server). One a single default instance and another with 2 named instances. No...

Wow. I guess you might not have an option since your TAM and Premier Support cannot provide an answer. Out of curiosity was this just a question or did you...

Yout 'bible', BOL (Books Online). Use the following keword phrase: service, user accounts

1) What type of user is 'Admin' ? Domain user, domain admin ???

2) Is login 'Admin' a local admin on 'asian50' ?

Good Day Martin. I also have utilized MSX and multi-server jobs for the same purpose. On a daily basis I monotor server and database healkth and run adhoc updates as...

sysdepends has always been broken (it's part of the Sybase legacy code). However I believe that EM does it differently (like so many other functions) and is correct.

Just for good measure ... Sybase does have a convert function ...

Out of curiosity what is the database data and log sizes ? What is your recovery mode ? Are you using SQL maintenance plans ? What is the interval of...