thank you

Gilamonster - Any advice on what to look ?

Yes, you can give access to the devs to edit jobs without giving "sa" rights. They do not need to "own" them, just edit and start/stop them correct? If so,...

thanks for the reply.

My problem did NOT solved....

The sql jobs cannot be owned by a Group/Role. It has to be a account or user.

As all my...

its new laptop and version I installed is developer and I have enabled automatic updates on the system but not sure if this caused the issue.

Thanks Steve.

I have NOT tried using single user mode but I changed UAC setting to minimum level possible and restarted my machine and it worked.

Is it a bug in win...

Thankyou Ninja,Gilamonster.

Thank you Gsquared and @SQLFRNDZ

Regularly shrinking the database files is usually just a good way to slow the whole server down. It causes file fragmentation, locks during auto-growth, and...

Phil, Not able to download your scripts....

It worked after followig these steps..

This service account does not have the necessary user right "Log on as a service."

User Action

Assign "Log on as a service" to the service account...

but I am not sure how to assign user as service account in SQL Conf manager.

I have used "Log On" tab through sql server cofiguration manager to apply the account but still no luck

No and we are on stand alone.

I did the following steps as suggested by Article but did NOT fixed the issue. The service account I am using is a domain...

Thanks John.

I did check online first and none of the solutions fixed my issue so I thought of checking in this forum.

The paging size I allocated for windows is 100 GB as we have plenty of space.

<<<<what is your physical server? >>>>

I didnt get this question