What do you mean with upgrade th disks? ...

And how can I demonstrate to the system people that we have disk problems?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks everybody

I think, my problems occur when I do backups, or  reindex and things like that.

The errorlog shows messages like:

SQL Server has encountered 1 occurrence(s) of IO requests taking longer than 15...

Ok! I'll try to use unicode strings...

thank you very much!

Ok! Thank you

I will start with the second option!

Yes it is....

Yes, MSDTC is running

 I forgot to say that VSQL6 is on cluster....

No, not an specific reason...

Only to know if it's possible.

I wanted to know why this behaviour, but now that I know that this is the way SQL Server...

Hello again,

And thanks a lot, but  I know that I can create the table first, and then do the 'select .. into'  , but i wonder if it would have other...