Here's the other issue. If you find errors in DBCC, and you've just run your backup, it might be useless. I'd argue you should get the integrity checks done, and...

That's a fair point and I'll reword the question and answer and award points back.

Most people working with SQL Server, are laypeople, and to them, Unicode is UCS-2, 2 bytes...

That is in vague.

Does the file reside on the SQL Server? Does it need to? Typically SQL Server doesn't write to the file system. It can, but that's not something...

Did you add the new disk as a clustered resource? I'm not sure it shows up automatically.

I would use the T-SQL script that Mani provided. Get used to using scripts, and you could easily set this to run at the end of other maintenance operations that...

I would not back up to remote drives directly. If there is any network hiccup, your backup will fail, and that will be the day Mr. Murphy fails one of...

I haven't seen log corruption before.

Can you make a log backup directly to a new file name?

If not, can you run a full backup? If you can, try BACKUP LOG...

SQL Server uses the resources it needs for queries. Any query could run the CPU to 100%, and that's fine for short periods of time. If it lasted more than...

Be sure that you don't need old versions of the packages. Likely you don't, but be sure that people are aware you are getting rid of these.

That would be a great enhancement for authors. I'll log this and email you your results.

I'd be happy to host a user group list if anyone wants to let me know. Actually, I'll make an announcement.

Excellent...

Strange, it seems as though it has to be security/permissions then for the main package. Is there a proxy account you can set just for a test?

What step is failing? Have you gotten a detailed debug log from SSIS?

Do you mean how many voted 1 star, 2, etc.?