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SQL Agent problem

  • October 20, 2008 at 10:50 am

    #214264

    I installed SQL Server 2008 successfully on my XP system last week but now an annoying "black box" appears on the screen. It looks like a command prompt box but there is no command prompt and I can't enter anything in it. I can minimize it. I can close it but it reappears several seconds later. Its properties are only about the font and color, etc. The box has a heading of:

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Binn\SQLAgent.EXE

    If I stop the SQL Agent service, it goes away but then I can't open SQL Management Studio without going back and restarting SQL Agent.

  • October 28, 2008 at 8:10 am

    #890644

    glee33 (10/20/2008)

    I installed SQL Server 2008 successfully on my XP system last week but now an annoying "black box" appears on the screen. It looks like a command prompt box but there is no command prompt and I can't enter anything in it. I can minimize it. I can close it but it reappears several seconds later. Its properties are only about the font and color, etc. The box has a heading of:

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Binn\SQLAgent.EXE

    If I stop the SQL Agent service, it goes away but then I can't open SQL Management Studio without going back and restarting SQL Agent.

    Sounds like an undocumented feature 😀 Are you running cumulative update 1 for 2008?

    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/956717

    Tommy

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  • October 28, 2008 at 8:16 am

    #890653

    Actually I got rid of it by reinstalling. 🙂

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