Hello, I have rechecked the setup of the Linked Server in the Enterprise Manager and it is correct. I also restarted the sqlserver agent but to no avail. I'm stumped....

Thanks for the replies. Yes, I am running SQL Server 2000 and the Oracle client is loaded on that server. Can you elaborate on what you mean by the security...

This is getting a bit more confusing. Watching the database in the enterprise manager it changes state between loading and read_only and when it is in read_only mode the .tuf...

Thanks all, it was a permissions issue.

Thanks to all for the replies.

Greetings, I am a bit confused, at one point you state there will be no patches for Windows 2000 and later list patches including those for Windows 2000. Still my...

How do you determine how many logs are waiting to be purged? Thanks.

Thanks, that is what I suspected.

I have seen many references to this problem being caused by bugs or large transactions or transactions occurring as the backup is running. Is there...

SQLBill, I am curious as to why you suggest setting growth to a value rather than a percent. Are there preformance issues or is it merely because of the increasing...

Thanks to everyone who replied. I feel much more comfortable about my backup procedures for the system databases. Thanks.

Thank you both for your replies. One more question. The master and msdb databases are in simple mode, I gather that is the default, so transaction logs will not be...

As the original poster, thank you. Yes, I would appreciate any information as I still haven't figured this out. I've posted on a couple of other forumes and still no...

Thank you.

Thank you. One additional question is what if the machine is rebooted while the backup or copy process is occurring? Will SQL Server be aware of this and rollback the...

Elliot, thank you for the help, things are getting clearer. Hopefully I can impose upon you to answer one additional question. In Enterprise Manager when I check the log shipping...