Steve and Jay -

Thank you so much for your help. Steve - I was able to get your thoughts to work, however it did take some time. Jay -...

Steve,

Do you have a recommended format to substring? I was playing with various values and wasn't able to get the convert to work on converting any text to a meaningful...

I am really just a novice with adminstering SQL Server. As a result, I am not too sure how to answer question about the default. My default database is actually...

Yes, I am sure I am using the correct login. When I did the restore, I went to the last full backup and restored on that date. I shouldn't have...

Andy,

I found out a table was deleted. As a result, I chose restore database. I didn't want to override my original database. My original goal was just to take the...

I have been running SQL Backups with SQL Server. I did a recover. I didn't know it would add the .bak. When you look at the option to change the...

Dan - actually I tried that. I couldn't link/import into a new database if the old database was secured.

Thanks for the thought,

Jeff

Thanks! As usual - you are a great help. I think you have had a hand in answering ALL my questions I have posted to date.

So you think a "Guest"...

Thanks for the information. Any recommended workarounds?

Yes, they use seperate workgroup files. They are from completely different systems. I'm surprised this isn't more of an issue. I would think (personally) that folks would want to link...

I was able to get most of my problems fixed. I was reading on a web site about certain bugs with SQL Server 2000. Apparently if you have the "Fix...

No, actually nothing has failed with backup database. What has failed are the individual scheduled jobs. They were failing for all except for my 1.2 gb database. In other words,...

This did work. I was actually thinking about trying this. I was playing with it after my post and noticed that some of the backups worked fine. However my system...

I was able to get the problem fixed. James Travis helped provide the solution. Here is his email:

Sorry, I think maybe I did not make this correctly clear. [A-Z] may...