Frank, That's what I'm finding out as well. We have over 30 SQL2000 servers each with a number of databases. I am trying to change to taskpad view...

Thank you jxflagg. The suggestion to stop the third party service did the job.

No, the backup process is a third party product called Backup Exec running on a different server.

The command being executed is BACKUP DATABASE... and has been running since Dec. 6. There is a lot of CPUtime and DiskIO associated with the SPID, but I don't...