I has the same error and the root cause was that SSIS was NOT installed on the cluster node that the SQL instance was running on at the time the...

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You should make sure that Visual Studio is still installed. If you didn't previously have VS installed, the BI Dev Studio installation will install a VS shell...

I have over 100 instances of sql (SQL 2000 / SQL 2005) and each month I have to give a count of the number of user databases on each instance. ...

Same issue here...We use Autosys for job scheduling.  Since all the jobs are being controled via Autosys and each job has dependencies associated with it SQL backups should be no different. ...

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Do you see same slowness by performing file copy?

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No...Performance is very fast while coping...

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Ever since installing service pack 3 I am getting the error:

The Scheduler 0 appears to be hung. SPID 0, ECID 0,...