the error you posted seemed to indicate appends. Definitely check that.

There are some good scripts here on the site for backups that can help if you want to look at...

Is that the bent, Natural shape keyboard with the two halves separated? I tried those, but since I use my left index for "y", it didn't work for me.

I have...

there are places for improvement, and the code in the article was updated in an earlier comment. I have updated the article to reflect that.

I think SELECT is a good...

Are you appending backups to an existing file?

Don't do that. It increases your risk dramatically. If there is a file issue, and there could be as it grows, then you...

Can you post a link for that?

You could kind of get around this with a snapshot and then bcp out data/script schema, but I'm not sure that's what you want.

The standby is the backup, just...

You might want to explain a little more what you want as well as the DDL and samples. Show the output samples as well.

If you need a number of days,...

a few links: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181149.aspx

Log shipping tables in here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa260604(SQL.80).aspx

Slip in the answer reasoning. Must be according to the reference.

sorry to hear about your issues, and glad it's working. It is frustrating and I was cursing Toshiba when mine died, but it was frustration and I know it wasn't...

bob, I'd still prefer you ask them to try and solve it, or post some work. However that's not a bad way to ask for them to clean up their...

How are you solving it? And what are you solving?

You need to give a bit more detail about how you want to transform the tables into other data, and...

also, please try to write a query, or show us some effort. We don't want to do your work or answer your homework. We can help, but you need to...

you mention running a table, but that doesn't make sense. How do you want to consume this data or store it? What's the point?

That's up to you. If you set it to simple, then the log space is still required (depending on how much space is needed for that operation), but it's cleared...