Definitely leave model alone. Hpwever the answer to resizing is the #1 answer in the Top 10 Things you do not want to hear from your DBA ... It depends...

Windows Defender actually allows Gator ... there was an article or discussion about this some time ago ...

Marketing, Marketing, Marketing.

It is cool, but for who ? It is not a great paradigm shift, nor is it a wonderful technilogical breakthrough. Just glitz and glimmer in my opinion....

SET CARTOON_CHARACTER_RANT_MODE OFF

SET CARTOON_CHARACTER_RANT_MODE ON

A picture of Magilla Gorilla being used to humorously depict MS and Google.  Tsk ... Tsk ... Tsk ... Steve, how could you even fathom taking such...

Here's my 'short list' for tuning:

Round I

    DBCC UPDATEUSAGE

    UPDATE STATISTICS (with FULL scan) for all tables

    exec sp_recompile for all tables

    exec sp_refreshview for all views

Round II

    DBCC DBREINDEX

   ...

"net use" merely establishes and vailidates your credentials and access to the resource. You still have to copy something it appears whether you use robo-copy, xcopy or copy.

Have your 'host' check for port UDP 1434. My guess is that they closed it off by default when slammer hit a while back. That would be the difference between...

I just want to confirm Lynn's post. This has been an extremely sporadic issue in SQL 2000. The only solution was to drop and recreate the maintenance plan.

Here is a solution provided to me quite some time ago for this 'issue' by MS PSS. It ias not 'elegant' but it works:

SET ANSI_NULLS ON

SET ANSI_PADDING ON

SET ANSI_WARNINGS ON

SET...

Try an uninstall/reinstall of SQL Client 'stuff' on your laptop first. If that does not work maybe there is a firewall stopping you. To check this try using telnet to...

Karma, I guess that you idiosyncrasy is long-windedness ...

There is only one thing that you can change about the weather - that is how you perceive it. Being 'burnt out' is the same thing. Do not say or think...

I mix corn, mashed potatoes and butter together or baked beans, mashed potatoes and ground black pepper together. It is not because I was raised that way I just found out that...

ahhh ,...but you can check your windows account to see if it has administrator authority ...

xp_logininfo 'domain\username'