Steve, that is fantastic! Thank you very much. I wasted hours looking for ways to run a folder full of SQL scripts with GO commands in them via...

Update: This is only happening on SQL 2005 and 2008, not on the few SQL 2000 servers we still maintain.

It also only occurs using the WITH MOVE parameter of RESTORE...

David,

Two starting points:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlsetupandupgrade/thread/c007c020-46f2-484a-877b-c344b94a2b9e/

and

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1133389&page=9

I'm still amazed that MS decided to package this functionality in setup.exe, with all of the complications that that entails. That's the last...

One more note--even when it ran correctly, I still saw the "error" in the 90\Setup_Bootstrap\Log\Files\SQLSetup..._Core.log file. Just for future reference.

When it did run correctly, there was a new log...

Thank you for asking for the exact command! I started typing it out, and only then did I see what I've been blind to for the past day and...

I'm not happy with it either, for the same reasons, but I'm somewhat limited in what I can change. One of the things I'm constrained to is SQL logins--life...

I searched for articles and FAQ's on disaster recovery, but found very little info. Microsoft has a collection of articles in Q307775, which are all potentially useful, but it...

Gordon,

Check Q273572 re: that 'error -1' using rebuildm. I ran into the same thing testing our DR plan. It's a read-only issue, since the rebuild data files on...