Cy, That's very strange. I'm not sure what it isn't working.

It sounds like there must be something I'm missing, but not sure what it is. If you open the backup...

Perhaps I should have used Mini-Windows, Mini-Steve

Definitely not mini-ME:w00t:

Server Core is cool. It's a good idea and a good start.

Sorry, not my question.

The answer should be 1, 2, 4, 4, 5,

Actually season ticket holders bought tickets on Sat and Sun, so they were ok.

Here it was reported a malicious attack, but some rumors have floated from various sources that their...

down the drain??!?

Gonna be fun!

DO NOT Shrink if you can avoid it. This causes indexing fragmentation.

Or if you must shrink, rebuild your indexes.

Conversely, lots of people think theory has no place in the game.

It helps.

The issue is if the error is returned by the program. You could write a batch file, include your command and then check the ERRORLEVEL environmental variable. Most programs used...

Paul's a former MS guy, so he's used to a big budget.

I used to restore once a week to test servers for active databases in development. We'd do random restores...

It definitely will take time. Any idea of how long the backup takes? Does the database exist before the restore? IF not, you've got file creation time.

Check system monitor to...

Automated restores work fine, just be sure you're restoring to the right server!

You need to remove all connections as well from the test server, so you might set up a...

This is SQL Server. You don't need a quiet period to run the backup. It won't have an issue with the data being changed.

Your process might be in the middle...

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/movingmsdb/854/

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/moveyourmaster/847/

I've done this before, but it requires some scripting in ActiveX/VBScript/SMO or something like that. You need to read the file system, then check for all the files. Since you've...