I took a look at the site in codeplex for this tool. It looks promising, but I am concerned about a few things.

1. Since it is free, there...

I just noticed that the Ampersand gt in my last post translated as ">" so I guess that the forum kind of messed with the command you...

The full path works, though I am wondering why the command works in normal powershell without the path

and sqlps needs the path. I would ask why the error...

I see that this is a very complex issue involving issues of Memory "Ballooning" in the VMware environment and Power setting getting set on "balanced" or "high performance". It...

Books Online used to be my freind. Then I installed SSMS 2012 and Books Online disappeared into the

Microsoft treasure-hunt abyss. It's over here. No, it's over...

Yes, that's exactly what I tried per hint from Ville-Pekka Vahteala . That helps a lot. That takes care of

line feed and carriage return. Now...

Using the import/export wizard is time consuming and cumbersome. Frequently, it takes a few attempts

to get it to work. It also assumes you know precisely what you want...

Out of 1,996 files copied, there were 3 missing files. They were all .exe files.

Many other .exe files were, in fact, copied. Two of them were the SQLAGENT.EXE...

Brother Jones,

Good catch.

It is not there. There are 2 files missing from the binn folder. I haven't scoped out what the other one is.

But I am reluctant to...

SQL Server Error logs have no new entries for today. The service did not start. Event logs have nothing

The Storage Team (who did the drive copy) said all drive and folder permissions would be copied.

I just checked and the local administrators group has full control to the drive...

You've convinced me that the job will not zombify. But I'd feel better

if I knew what really happens. Nice to know it looks like it is supposed to...

As far as I can see, the results-to settings are not saved even for the same windows login.

I log in to windows as DOMAINA.userA and open SSMS using Windows...

I guess that was what I was doing. I thought I was deleting the backup before

I took another. But it's working fine.

Thanks.

Like I said. This be wierd