It is a known bug with that version. You need to upgrade to 9.00.3175 (Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2).

Thanks Marcus. That information was useful for me as well.

Any of the Oracle (10g or 11g) DBA Handbooks written by Kevin Loney and Bob Bryla are good.

Good websites to look at are:

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I also had that same problem. Microsoft automatic updates were trying to run. I notified the SA and had them turn off automatic updates.

I tried to load...

One other thing I noticed in the Event Log was the following message:

Configuration option 'Agent XPs' changed from 1 to 0. Run the RECONFIGURE statement to install.

This occurred after I...

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I have used AppDev (http://www.appdev.com/) before and they are pretty good. They also have some free downloads on their web site.

Upgrade to version 9.00.3175. The problem is fixed in that version.

I had the same problem and was not able to change the compatibility mode. I was only able to run backups using t-sql scripts.

Here is a link that describes how to set up what you want to do.

http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3442661

Can you stop replication, add a new drive with more space and then swap the drive letters between drives? For example, if your replicated database is located on drive...

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