How are you doing the restore and exactly what happened? Also, have you run a checkdb or restore verifyonly on the files?

Are you restoring to the same external disk or the internal disk you had issues with?

Can you restore the file on another machine?

The error message and exact steps would...

SQL Apprentice Jeff...has a nice ring to it. Maybe we can chip in for a pointy hat for you to wear to the meetings 😉

Everyone is right, not sure how sp_describe_cursor_columns got chosen as an answer. Must have been a bad day 🙁

Busy this week, so I've missed this thread until now. The QOD...

The values are in rows, not columns.

Hyperbac are the same guys that originally built Litespeed (from DBAssociates way back when). They've got a lot of experience and since you have lots of choices now (MS, Red...

And if you don't group emails by sender (I don't), be sure that you read from the newest to oldest. I've often found a note that something critical needed a...

There are a few things to check.

First, not sure which version of Windows you have, but in some versions there is a different kernel for 1 CPU or multiples. I'd...

Apologies for the delay. the XLS is updated.

I think you can survive without knowing the business. Window setup, exchange, basic SQL admin, etc. don't need business knowledge. However they're then tactical, utility services.

If you want to be...

And show some work in what you think or have attempted.

Upper case before lower case (http://www.asciitable.com/), remember that we only had upper case way back when.

But do the QOD however you want. Some people want the points, maybe it's a...

The query shows "value1", not "Value1", which definitely depends on case sensitivity.

however, in any case, "value1" is less than "value2" and the others. Your example bends the rows into columns....

Actually if it's just 2 or 3 drives, implement RAID first. If a drive fails, you're in trouble. That's more important than moving stuff around.

2 RAID 1, keep a spare spinning in there. OS, data on one, Logs on the other.

Be nice to get 2 smaller drives for a small log array and go...