Thanks for the corrections Gila. I appreciate your help on this.

GilaMonster (3/30/2015)

This is not true. Any thread on any core can issue an IO request to any file. Please DO...

You may also want to review here for the data files unless you have 31 cores on your VM: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic458542-148-1.aspx

The OS can only read one data file per...

Assuming you're not moving system databases (master, msdb, or model)...

Is the SQL Server patched? If so, can you

1) Install and patch SQL Server on the VM then take a snapshot...

After a long afternoon we were able to track this issue down to what appears to be an exchange configuration issue. I'm not an exchange expert in the least so...

Thanks for your reply!

I tried that but got the error below 🙁

One...

Also, here's the text from the RSReportServer.config file located at "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS11.NamedInstanceName\Reporting Services\ReportServer" for the RSEmailDPConfiguration tag:

<RSEmailDPConfiguration>

<SMTPServer>RemoteSMTPAddress</SMTPServer>

<SMTPServerPort>

</SMTPServerPort>

<SMTPAccountName>

</SMTPAccountName>

<SMTPConnectionTimeout>

</SMTPConnectionTimeout>

<SMTPServerPickupDirectory>

</SMTPServerPickupDirectory>

<SMTPUseSSL>

</SMTPUseSSL>

<SendUsing>2</SendUsing>

<SMTPAuthenticate>

</SMTPAuthenticate>

<From>JWSReports@zachrycorp.com</From>

<EmbeddedRenderFormats>

<RenderingExtension>MHTML</RenderingExtension>

</EmbeddedRenderFormats>

<PrivilegedUserRenderFormats>

</PrivilegedUserRenderFormats>

<ExcludedRenderFormats>

<RenderingExtension>HTMLOWC</RenderingExtension>

<RenderingExtension>NULL</RenderingExtension>

<RenderingExtension>RGDI</RenderingExtension>

</ExcludedRenderFormats>

<SendEmailToUserAlias>True</SendEmailToUserAlias>

<DefaultHostName>

</DefaultHostName>

<PermittedHosts>

</PermittedHosts>

</RSEmailDPConfiguration>

Thanks for your reply!

All the email accounts are to individuals and not distro list(s).

The To box contains: username@example.com;user.name@example.com

I am also asking my exchange admin to check things...

We recently began the SAP w/ SQL Server implementation and from what I've come across this may help you: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-1006. Go pages 2 & 3 "SAP-Microsoft Alliance".

To view it...

There is a COPY_ONLY full backup option with later versions of SQL Server. It does not affect the backup chain.

EDIT: and you can restore from a copy only.

Here's the setup for my largest app, entire instance setup and it's a high priority app.

1 prod

1 QA

1 dev

1 SAN snap

2 FULL b/u .bak files (not compressed)

12 Diff b/u .bak...

I've never looked for one on this site before, however searching book review seems to return a few articles / blogs. Possibly searching by the title of one would be...

Mile Higher, at this point, I think would be best to take SpringTown's advise and download from the site linked by opc.three.

I would advise the same steps in deploying...

There is a script here http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Administration/73478/ posted by Pavle-192195 that should do everything you need with the proper parameters. It also does an actual restore to a test DB and...