Sorry - I'll clarify.

on a remote server I see both instances correctly.

On the sql server itself I have two correct registrations in EM but both point to the default instance.

I've...

Thank you John! This has solved my problem.

Elaine

Thanks for replying - no, nothing has changed (me thinks) the dbs were dettached/attached. All objects are dbo.

Yes I do. The information is in the sql log but not the application log - this may be right but isn't how it works on my other servers.

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Hello,

I did find my own solution...

I had deleted tht builtin/administrators group from sql server logins and that is where my trouble had started - although I didn't original make the...

After much soul searching it transpires that I hadn't set up the a/c which was running the agent with sysadmin rights.

Thanks for your help ...