Okay...ignore my post then.  Can you browse to the external drive from Explorer on the server?  As long as the logical drive letter can be seen from the OS, SQL...

This sounds like an authentication problem. 

By external, I'm assuming you mean another server?  In your back up plan, you'll need to use the full UNC path to the backup...

Agreed to a point.  They do seem to have an axe to grind, particularly with regard to the medical and pharmaceutical industries.

I got curious after a friend that I had e-mailed...

This may be an indication of corruption in the database.  Have you tried running dbcc_checkdb on the affected database?  If it is indeed corrupt, your options are to either restore from a...

Assuming that you are using SQL Server 2000 and can afford some downtime, the simplest thing would probably be to detach the database and then re-attach it using the sp_attach_single_file_db...

Just saw this on the subject on BBC:

"They want to test our feelings," protester Mawli Abdul Qahar Abu Israra told the BBC.

"They want to know whether Muslims are extremists...

I was wondering when/if someone would post about this whole issue and it certainly is germain to the discussion.

One fundamental problem I see is that IIRC, depiction of any prophetic figure in any way...

Dayum...how did I miss this all day long? 

I think sushila hit it on the head by saying that people are much more likely to...

I remember that incident well as it happened right before the last presidential elections.  We were actually in Bogota in May of that year during the elections and the security...