Can you ping the SQL Server's DNS Name or IP address ? Can you telnet to port 1433on the SQQL Server ?

If all of the user database .mdf files and .ldf files are still pesent on your server then you can just restore the master database and things should come up...

That's great Joshua, however the healthcare industry and many, many of the big software players involved there are not in that league at all. So the 'bush' leagues it is...

Good editorial that touches on all of the relevant business points. All of the reasons presented are ones that make the case why our site will not go to SQL...

Oh ... I forgot a few things that the 'network guys' will also need to support your 'terrabyte' disk purchase.

• A newer, faster server to process this large amount of information. You'll need...

There is no solution. If you have to keep the data in your database then you have to have the disk space for it. If the network guys have such a...

David, I had to run the rskeymgmt utility on the old SQL server to extract the encryption keys since the client had never done so. Then again on the new SQLserver...

Colin,

"Cheers to 'the mess'"

... excuse the citation ...

I mean our livelyhood !

Interesting ... odbcbcp.dll  is not a part of MDAC ??? Well if that is the case I learned something new today. However I'd check service pack directories as well just...

I recently performed this for a client on the weekend. We installed the new server, installed SQL 2K5 and Reporting Services. Then we shut everything down. The we shut down...

For Northwest Indiana (where I live and work presently) it would be over the top. In Downtown Chicago and the suburbs where I worked for almost 20 years, well, it's...

I dunno ... maybe the typo's extend to the salary information as well ...

I've never heard of that one. I would suggect a reinstallation of MDAC. It's fairly quick, easy and painless.

Check your grooming. By default MOM will keep 366 days of information. At our site, 150+ servers the SystemCenterReporting database data portion grew to 500 Gb used with just default monitoring....

Since it is a workstation and not a production server I'd say you can do pretty much what you want to disk wise. You've got enough memory unless you have...