Google ... and see what you can see ...

It appears that MS Education has not learned from MS Software what is needs to ... i.e. Spec, develop & test, then you can market it !

A quick google turned up this link: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3BQ293422

Why are you changing them ? The reason I ask is that if you deny 'interactive login' to those accounts through Active Directory and the passwords are both 'complex' and...

Have you tried:

bcp [db name]..sysusers out srvname_dbname_sysusers_c.dat -SSRVNAME -T -c

Have you run sp_helpdb ?

The only reason I ask is that your response seems like you may be getting bit by not refreshing the studio ...

Thanks Geoffrey

The double underlining is even more of  a pain than the page-peel. Just moving your cursor to minimize, close or switch to another window has proven to be terrible experience....

With our present server and SAN architecture we achieve backup throughput in excess of 1 Gb/minute on most of out databases. Some server execute 10-12 backups concurrently !

Please translate new acronym BOFH ... PM if it requires 'choice' verbosity ...

I understood that point in the original post. I was more curious as to why the limit in todays world ? Is it a limit imposed by another software package...

Why the limit to 7 characters ???

Restore  from the last known good backup.

Also was your database split between local disk and SAN disk ? If it was then you are almost guaranteed the same issue in...

Answering the question "How big is 'big'" would seem to be the first order of business. Once this is answered I'd then ask what are your current server hardware specs....

Try:

sp_resetstatus database_name

drop database database_name