Are you disconnecting in your code? Or do you issue a "use master"? Or are you making a new connection to the instance?

It would be great if you could post an update, Mike. The next person might have a similar issue.

hfxDBA (5/13/2010)

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Not meant to be abrupt (did you see my smilies?). Just thought it was funny (almost ironic) to post all those replies in this topic.

I don't see a...

Boy, I hate evals for this reason. I assume it's expired, correct?

Do these help? You might be stuck as they don't want you to keep installing evals on the same...

Wow, that's quite an abrupt statement. Especially with the signature!

yes

If you run a backup on the server, it will land on the host companies drive. They ought to be able to, or you can, file copy that down.

If not,...

Recovery normally runs when a database is first started or opened. Have you checked the error log (SQL error log) for entries?

You should be able to uninstall completely from control panel, reboot, and then reinstall 2008 R2.

Call PSS at Microsoft. They can help you work through this. If you have corruption, I hope you have backups somewhere else.

Alvin beat me back over here. He answered me in email and said that his wife was working two jobs so he could hang out and drink mint juleps on...

I sent an email to Jeremiah and Jeff Moden.

I've added Wayne, Luke, Lynn, Jason, Malathi to the site. Anyone else, send me an email via PM that you want added.

You guys try adding/editing content and let's see how...

I've seen this two ways. One is you can add a URL (hot or not) at the bottom of the relevant slide in small print as a credit.

Or you can...

They'll be back. Hopefully Alvin is OK since he is in the TN area and they had flooding last week. I'll try to ping him.