Linked servers are notoriously bad at passing errors back...

Excellent, cheers.

I was  suprised that it _mostly_ worked, just the sysfilegroups was off.  Now it is fine, ta

OK, it looks like a corrupt wmi.  Wmi rebuild is not working.

i will be bald shortly.

Ahahaa ok the funny little icons actually do something...

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Computer localhost does not exist on the network, or the computer cannot be configured remotely. Verify that the...

Yeah, its easy enough to do in code, I just wanted to grab that error.  it seems so odd that ms would do that.

Projecting forwards from historical growth, or just making up what might happen in a brand new db thats not been made yet?

Yeah, the difficulty is that the databases are effectively isolated (different continents for a start) so thats not hugely viable.

Just seems like another microsoft wtf (like ado error handling, data...

It carries on, fine.  But the plan was to have it stop if it was too late, but if the file was too early to simply move that file and...

i just spent a few days banging my head against the same thing.  Got the MSDTC running nicely in component services, fiddled with this that and the other.  Turned out...

I have had somehting fairly similar before, where the accounts are domain accounts, and for some reason the server cannot connect to the domain controller to verify the account... ensuing,...

I like diskkeeper myself.

Its difficult to advise you without knowing the data patterns.  I used to be a fan of faffing around trying to break out the databases/indexing/etc onto different drives.  Now I...

You might also want to check you don't have implicit transactions on when you do your insert ...

sp_helprotects?

congrats!

good luck