I found typing the information each time was a little longer but safer.  And once, I changed the registry, one thing lead to another and I ended up rebuilding the...

Answer is??

Must choose advance after getting the components that you want to install.  Go through each high leve folder, see where it is going to install and change it if...

I fully agree.  We have said for sometime now that SOX was Congress's  "Auditors Full Employment Act".  The took away IS consulting and had to give them something else.

We do...

Been pushing for specifics.  Get none back.  This issue hit the board of directors last month.  Heavy push on this from top down.  Auditor say they might not "sign off...

We already have seperation of duties and process in place for with change request forms that require the requester's and their manager's signature. Then of course after I finish,...

Can you get down time of 10 minutes?

You can down the database, detach, attach without the logs, create new logs....

Joseph

For those who were waiting, here are my results.  I basically cut and pasted the 2nd attempt at the documentation.  It is good enough that I can duplicate each time.  Not...

Thanks for the reminder.  Yes,  I will post my results tomorrow.  Basically from what I found is that the options need to be tweeked based on the hardware in the...

Thank you for your help. I will post my solution shortly.

There is an undocumentd parameter -Q that I had to use. With out it my restore does not...

Thank you for your help. I will post my solution shortly.

There is an undocumentd parameter -Q that I had to use. With out it my restore does not...

I have searched Microsoft, but have not come across that article.  Looks like I need to improve my search skills as well.

Thank you both, I will read and try and...

I agree with you on that (stress).  Problem is management does not consider the potential of DR is enough to pay for the hardware needed to test that way.  We...

thanks, did it.  same thing.

I really think it has something to do with moving from server A to server B and the drive config is different.  I need to make...

There is nothing running.  If I go to EM and connect I get

"connection can not be established..."

"Reason: SQL Sever doesn ot exist or access denied..."

I will try starting up with...

Sorry.  Forgot to put this in:

The output from obove came from running the following statement from the appropriate binn directory.

d:\..\MSSQL$LATIN_CP850_CIAS\Binn>sqlservr -slatin_cp850_cias -f

Joseph