cheers for your reply i actually sorted the logs by just running dbcc shrinkfile and didn't need to backup the logs...

From your first point Michael,  the maint task DB backup job is setup to to backup some databases both system and user dbs for instance master and msdb was selected...

i know you can even in 6.5 my problem is how not regarding the version...

now i have an obvious question which is i have to query each and every database for this name wherever it appears, and i'm sceptical about running a select statement...

can someone tell me if the code below will update the table in question's column to the specified in SQL 6.5

update tablename

set columnname1 = 'Myname, Me'

where

columnname1 = 'Myname, me' and

columntype...

this looks like access problem (security) i think the account running sql server does not have the required permissions for sql server. so i would say check the level of...

in a nutshell that would be the requirement...

sp_who2 active for active logins

yep that's what i'm referring to a central administration server.

i started having problems from stage 4 and more of stage 5 i'll say

all i need is for sql server to start in the cluster and everything i've tried is not working at the moment. i've copied the modellog files back to it's...

yes i did

yes i've tried moving the modellog back to it's original location but with no success and i detached before moving the modellog file but now sql server don't seem to...