Never mind. I was running the restore as a job step. The job was reporting success but the restore was failing because it could not get exclusive use...

Thanks for the replies. I got it to work in a job with:

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON

GO

ALTER INDEX xxxxxxx

ON yyyyyyyy

REBUILD WITH (ONLINE = ON)

Could have sworn I tried that before, but...

That's good news. The part about "webpage has a redirect loop" made me want to suggest trying a different browser. I get that on some web pages with...

It's completely clean. Nothing out of the ordinary.

It's been more than two weeks so it's hard to remember. 🙂 But I believe my resolution actually was to do the downloads with my laptop not connected...

It occurred to me, I am on my company's network now. A policy may be stopping the download. I will try it when I'm off the network.

Thanks. Definitely bookmarking that list at http://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/

Yes, I understand how to do that. The job history shows the failure and the maintenance plan history shows success. I know that's not supposed to happen but...

By "job report query" do you mean the process that logs the maintenance plan success/fail or something else? Can you share any hints for troubleshooting the job report query?

I...

Thanks for the ideas. BTW, the job failed again today 6:35am.

Yes, that message was from the job history. Another part of this mystery is that the...

Thanks. Those are good instructions but I have never had to install a SQL service pack manually on both cluster nodes (active then passive). I always run the...

The release date would just be a nice-to-have. I'd like to know when major service packs came out, just for reference. I know that info can be found,...

I appreciate the SQL build lists on SSC.com and I refer to them often. But would it be possible to add the release date of each build, CU, SP?...

I would love to see "high performance" asynchronous Mirroring in Standard.

I found the answer to my question. If you are filtering on DatabaseID (as in > 5 to not see system databases) then Profiler will not show the deadlock...