What do you mean by "continue?" You add this like any other data type. A bit can only have 1 or 0 values, so there's nothing else you need to...

I agree with Matt that the service account does not need to be an admin. It could, but not as a general rule. I pick a regular domain user account...

Meaning you have two databases with the same logical name?

I've never messed with the logical name. Just let it go along with the physical based on defaults.

If you go with the SAN, get HP to help. I'd separate things out, but there are good reasons not to go with R5. Better to R1 and R10, even...

If you do, please let us know what they say.

Be sure you've looked for hardware errors. I've seen this happen with RAID arrays while a rebuild is taking place. You might have failing drives, so rule this out.

On the Windows side you can run a job or send a NETSEND (maybe more in W2K3 or 2K8) when a service stops.

I don't think SQL Server helps here because...

I don't have a great one, but usually I've asked for dbname (if it matters), size, expected growth (prefer percentages here), downtime/data loss allowed (minutes preferred), users (count) and security...

STOPAT would only be for the last log and that's if you wanted to restore only to some time prior to the end of the last log.

All of these should...

I'd resubmit and include this note in there. I believe a human examines the requests and mails out the package, so they might have just picked the wrong file.

Not sure why SP3 isn't being worked on or why it can't proceed along with 2008 development, but pass the word and vote. We have a link on the front...

There are some scripts here on the site as well that might help you automate this.

Or post yours when it's done!

That's a SQL Server shirt, not the underdog to Oracle/DB2 anymore.

It definitely gets me some comments. 😉

You can perform a backup to multiple files, meaning that if you had 2 files, 1/2 the data is in 1 and 1/2 is in the other. You need both...

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