Jeffrey, in regards to your reply at (6:36:10 today)there are a couple of things here I would like to explore, like the MOVE. I tried it, but without good result....

OMG that was stupid.

yep, I better do this again.

Thanks to both of you for hanging in there with me. I had been butting up against this original problem of...

Some good news. Thank you for the good info about metadata (lingering) and sharing the practices such as MOVE. These are very good to gain along the way...

I issued...

Bear with me.

The database is gone. ie. There is no expandable "+" next to the database in Object Explorer, I can't open it. It is also gone...

Making progress. Very grateful to this forum as I wouldn't touch a production db before getting this straight.

Now, in this second example that I gave, I wasn't trying to overwrite...

OK. I will not use WITH INIT or WITH NOINT when I create log files. Thank you, Jeffrey, for sharing the naming convention/best practice that works for you as...

I've noted your recommendation to create seperate tran log backups. Got it.

To avoid the problem of having the same LastLSN in more than one backup I redid the practice backup...

Thanks for replying Gilamonster.

I have been saving to the same trans log using NOINT. so, there's only one trans file.

I just checked the last LSN in the dif...

I realize this is an old post, but like Cynthia I'm practicing backups, and themes overlap i think. I am new to the forum and using SQL Server...

I came to this post for similar issue: SQL Server Agent not running on Enterprise edition.

Above recommendation helped. I found service was not started and wouldn't start until I...

I am am studying for the MS SQL Server 2008 Implementation and Management Exam. On the practice test supplied by MS Training Kits there is the following question, pertaining...