Haven't seen it, but have you tried the patch in the article? When you say you couldn't get MS support, what does that mean? did you call the PSS hotline?...

Have you tried using the "WITH MOVE" option to set the log file to a different name?

I'm sure there is, but I'm not sure what it is? What type of step is this and how many lines? If it's T-SQL, perhaps you should create a stored...

It can be slightly flaky, especially if SQL is not running as a user account (as local system). Did you click and set a breakpoint and see the red dot?

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Sorry, too busy to do much in the forums yesterday.

Glad you came up with the answer.

Have you recompiled anything? Perhaps reindex? Is this sp performance or query or both?

You can also get this from VBScript using the FileSystemObject.

Wow, that's a tough one. How many people will use this? Larger numbers of users should mean more calls. Of which, some more should be escalataed to the DBAs.

How stable...

There are any number of solutions. I do the backups with TSQL and the file deletions with VBScript in an ActiveX task. Both are contained in a DTS package which...

You need to configure SQLMail to do the reading. These stored procedures only work with the MAPI interface in a client like Outlook.

You could also do some processing of mail...

Never seen anything like this and that's a strange one. Course, I don't like my computer beeping at me.

A good idea, but I'm not sure I agree. Unless there is some pick and choose and a subscription model. Upgrading our DBs is a major challenge, both in time...

I've got a slightly different perspective on the SANs. I work in a large data center, managing DB2, Oracle and SQL across local and SAN storage. Some things I've seen...

I have to search it down, but I had a routine to do this for the backup files and track the sizes. Could easily be modified for the log dumps....