OK..thx

So...did it ever cause you issues?

I just set up new 2 SQL 2008 servers, on DB server, one RS server, and I get exactly the same thing when I configure...

The script is only for SQL 2005...

I'm using the Sybase OLEDB config tool that was installed with the Sybase client on the server.

I get the same issue using SQL 2000 so I suspect its the...

SQL version shouldn't matter, you're just writing to the disk.

Is your 'master' account a domain account?

Can you run the backup through a query window?

If you log on as the 'master' account can you do something like xp_cmdshell 'dir \\server\drive\folder...

My guess is when it is running it is running under the SQL Agent account, not your account. What account is SQL, and SQL Agent running as, does that account...

Are you running as a job, Maintenance plan or just a query?

Can you post the SQL?

How/where are you running this?

Steve,

That was it.....only been messing with this for 2 days....

Cheers

Glynne

A little more info. I have narrowed down the issue to one table. That table has a clustering index, and 3 non-clustered indexes. It has 43,000,000 rows. I ran DBCC...

In SQL 2005 I use this....

SELECT

object_name, counter_name, cntr_value/1024 as 'MBs...

The title should be 'Conversation Groups'

Yelena,

Everything is working fine now. It started working again yesterday morning.

I was running a command very similar to yours. I could run the sp_send_dbmail without the query and it worked...

Yelena,

DDDD\xxxxxx is a domain account. It is the account I use to lov=g on to the workstation. It is alos the account that is running SQL. The computer is on...