You might try, if you can, removing and reinstalling the client tools. I'm sure something got mucked up in the install. My XP SP2 worked fine with SP4, but I...

I guess the cursor thing is possible, but I haven't seen that to be an issue. I thought that cursors would grab a copy of the data to hold it,...

If you have a firewall nearby, you might be able to do some port redirection if needed.

Throw - "Can't you just throw all that data onto a report?"

Dreams are great, but you need to ask. Next time you get a review or an interview, ask for a bit more and see what happens.

Wow, praise, that's a new one.

Anytime and thanks for the update.

Did you script them out? Just checking in case someone else searches the thread.

Use dynamic SQL to build a string based on the other table, then exec() it.

Use the @attachments parameter. The files need to be on the local disk drive of the SQL Server.

I believe master can only be put into single user mode with the startup parameter.

What's the growth parameter? 10%? Is 10% > 63G?

That might be it. The other issue could be that that particular file in a filegroup is full, but the other files...

No good way. That's what the constraints are there for. You can script them out and drop them, reload, then recreate them.

As someone that's had about 20 interviews in the last 6 years, I can tell you that I've seen DBA salaries as low as 65k and as high as 95k...

All 4 answers are definitely not correct. Each database instance DOES NOT have it's own tempdb. Each database on a SQL Server shares one tempdb. There can be multiple instances...

What everyone has presented is valid. However the question wasn't "how do I solve this", it was a "identify the problem". tempdb being shared is the problem, the solution could...