Can you post the error message and the steps you took to restore the db?

Are there any batch jobs that run at that time? 

In my past job for a large global company, I exclusively worked from home for 7 years.  I was both a development (application) DBA and a production DBA.  We also...

I also just saw this featured script on the post which may be helpful:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/viewscript.asp?scriptid=1925

For SQL Server 2000, I use a windows script to check for errors in the error logs and send an e-mail if errors are found.  I converted an old unix...

I find that more frequent backups of the transaction log will keep the size managable.  For example, if you back it up every 4 hours, try every 2 hours instead. ...

I have set up a batch file call a .vbs script.  Check out this link to the Microsoft Technet Scripting Guys archives. 

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/nov04/hey1129.mspx

Ed,

Thanks for the info.  SQLAgent service was running under the local admin account.  When I changed it to use the domain admin account it worked. 

I agree that more info is needed on the size of your database and how much it grows, etc...

But from the information you have given, I do not think a...

When are you trying to run this process?  The process should be run on off hours or in single user mode if possible.  Try seeing if there are any processes...

The Oracleora92Agent service is used for managing and monitoring of Oracle databases using Oracle Enterprise Manager.  It depends on how your environment is set up to know if it will...

The documentation that I have states the follwoing:

The Log Cache Hit Ratio represents the percentage of log cache reads satisfied from the log cache. 

A low percentage of this statistic...

The answer to this question says that the correct answer is "MSSQLServerOLAPservice". However, the explanation says "The default service name is MSOLAP".  Am I missing something? Which is the correct...

I have been an Oracle DBA on Unix for the last 8 years.  In the past 6 months I have started a new job as a SQL Server DBA and...

Did you try running a backup first then shrinking?