Good voting everyone. Microsoft told me today that SP3 is due August patch tuesday, provided there are no unexpected bugs.

Kaushik, can you say what the problem with the box was?

I have a similar problem where a 500mb, 10 second, backup (which will happily run manually) takes 1-3 hours as...

ran profiler and i am not getting anything else of meaning on that spid. before or after. I guess it is how the connections are being reused.

gilamonster, the developers do...

Thanks Michael. dbcc useroptions is great for my connection but I cant seem to get it to work for other connections that I don't have control of but am trying...