i think the application runs better and has much more features, but from admin point of view - day by day tasks I sometimes miss the EM

that would be quite true for rebuilding system databases

I miss seeing easyly when a job had failed or a database been marked suspect because datafiles wasn't available

Unless it is a read only type of database, whatever uncommited transactions you might have had in the log file(s) are gone.

You can try creating a new database with the...

Thanks, works beautifully, nice technique.

Sorry guys, my mistake, my scenario wasn't quite accurate. I try to simplify it as much as I could, but I end up getting it wrong.

Here I am try...

Do you guys know about a good article\book that talkes about maintaining and debuging a replication setup.

From my experience is not difficult to configure replication, the trick is to...

You might not have Integration Services installed.

I couldn't find a way to right click on a database, back it up and in the same time schedule that backup. It helped me a lot in 2k to schedule databases...

Looks okay to me. Should I look for something specific?

Just a regular server, no clustering involved, and no HD compression enabled.

Anyway it looks like an anomaly, a reinstall of the OS/SQL Server might fix it. I just wanted to know if...

I am positive, here is the output of msinfo

Drive C:

Description Local Fixed Disk

Compressed False

File System NTFS

Size 14.65 GB (15,726,702,592 bytes)

Free Space 1.35 GB (1,448,914,944 bytes)

Volume Name Local Disk

Volume Serial Number 88C94C44

Partition Disk #0, Partition #0

Partition Size 14.65 GB (15,726,703,104 bytes)

Starting...

It is a local drive.