Go to control panel and you can create a new account there. Looks like the password was incorrect for sql agent. Event wiewer sould display the error message....

Try using a DMV to see what's happening, start with sys.dm_tran_locks, there are some good articles out there. I agree that the previous post will most likely resolve the...

There shouldn't be any issues with this, I have not heard of SQL Express having issues with IIS. I would recommend setting up WSRM to ensure available Resources for...

You may be the only user on the system, but that doesn't mean there is not another connection to the dataabse. Confirm in activity monitor there are no active...

This all depends on your SAN guys, If they can duplicate what is on your local disks, then they should do that.

This is where it can get a...

Hi Simple answer is no, you can't replicate the data, SQL express can only be a subscriber. But seeing that you are only using express then the databases must...

If you check the bootstrap folder on your system drive you will get more detailed information on what failed. Just make sure that you are an admin on both...

Yeah, check permissions on the account being used to start the agent. services.msc. you will find the account info in there. If it isa domain account, check that...

Hi Matt, as a DBA I have encountered this issue a great deal and as stated earlier, it does depand. This is the way that I would approach the...

I got it sorted, I decided to proceed with my cluster build and it seems that installing another instance resolved the issue, I got it uninstalled successfully. My recommendation....

It's all 2008R2 OS and SQL