Since reading this, I understand why our database maintenance was so insanely structured. The wizard did it! Gave me the confidence the scrap the old stuff and rewrite...

A while ago, also in SQL Server 2005, I had a strange report of failure to insert a duplicate. The error message named the wrong index - very misleading....

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I re-enabled update stats and the two other problematic updates in SQL Agent last weekend. All were processed in their normal timeframes. (The update stats in 50...

The solution is something like:

1. Go To ControlPanel/Clock, Language And Region/Change Location to bring up the 'Region and Language' dialog.

2. On the Formats tab, set format to 'French(French)'.

3. Apply and...

Thankyou for help and support, especially at the weekend. It was much appreciated.

We are now around 90% confident that this was due to running SSMS on the server and sqlwb.exe...