Thanks for your input everyone. I was actually able to retach the dabatbase from Enterprise manager just be right clicking and attaching. All I had to do was give the...

Hmmmm, good point. What if I restored the very old backup, with a different .mdf and .ldf files name. THen reattched it with the .mdf and .ldf files from today....

WOW!!! That did the trick. Thanks so much! I really appreciate it. 🙂

How do you write a change script to place a column in the middle of a table that already has data (over 5K of rows) and not the end of...

Also, when and how do .mdf and .ldf files get modified? All my .mdf and .ldf files have the same time and date...even northwind.

Ah great! This totally sucks! My question is how can you over-write the .mdf and .ldf files when the restore as database displays another database name. My restore as database...

THANKS! That worked. Also, do you know how to just get the very last level to display? I just need the highest level. I don't want to see level 1,...

Thank you everyone. This has really helped a great deal. 🙂

Thanks, I understand how the fullbackup, differential, and transaction log backups work. My question is with the INIT and the appending. I assumed that the differential is the changes from...

Okay, I'm a little confused. I thought we wanted the differential backups to append. I thought that meant, take the differential from Monday and add to Tuesday. Wednesday and so...

What do you mean by syntax? Please explain.

The full backup was done on Wednesday (mistake in earlier post) at 5am, differential today at 5am, and the transaction logs are every 4 hours from 6am until 10pm. This is how...

Thank you to everyone who replied to this post. You really helped a great deal. I have a meeting today to talk to my boss about using two RAID1's. 

Now,...

Thanks for all your input.  This really helps. I have another question though.  I recently read somewhere that you could implement RAID 10 using a minimum of 4 drives.  But...

Thanks for all the input.  Where is the best place to put the database and transaction log backups.  I know mirroring takes up a lot of space.  Also, this DB...