From the error message it seems that the network path is not accessible from the source path.

Check if "\\MYIP\" is accessible from the Server hosting the SQL Server instance. If...

I concur with Gail. The network drive is inaccessible in the middle of the backup. Please try taking the database backup on the local server and then move it to...

You can take the backup of any database onto any location provided you have requisite permissions on the SQL Server...

The reason for this is by default SSIS packages are saved with the "EncryptSensitiveWithUserKey" option. This ensures that the package is encrypted with the credentials of the user creating it....

Does "shutdown -s -f -t 00" work?

When the create database statement is running, it requires exclusive access to model database. Now that you have killed the sessions, do you see any other session blocking it?

select *...

The procedure cache makes some objects remain in the tempdb. I had a similar issue[/url] and clearing the procedure cache helped me reduce the tempdb size.

Note: Please do not clear...

Connect to that using SSMS and execute select @@servername Enter the same server name in the ODBC connection.

Please spend some time exploring the features available within a database in SSMS.

Here is the screenshot of where you can find the Full Text Indexes.

Check for any unused FULL TEXT INDEXES on that database. Removing them would help you fix this issue.

In Task Manager check if any other application is consuming more memory. Try to free up some memory on the system.

You may find the response from Jonathan Kehayias in this post useful.

I was able to overcome that by checking the job status before starting it.

select @J_SSIS_Status=run_status from sysjobhistory where job_id=@SSISStepID

and run_status=4

print @J_SSIS_Status

if @J_SSIS_Status <>4

begin

Exec msdb..sp_start_job 'sptest'

end

The Cleanup task in Maintenance Plans is the easiest way of doing this. Since you do not want to create Maintenance Plans, you can make use of a custom as...

Is "CLIENT: SomeIP" is the IP Address of the system from which the query got timed out?

If not, you are seeing this message because of the some inventory/port scanner software...