Thanks Lowell for pointing that out, when adding up the components it comes out to under 5GB

But in the link

In the "Hard Disk" section it mentions:

SQL Server 2012 requires a...

Great thanks Andrew!

I saw your post and wanted to ask where would I download the latest version?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh873008.aspx

I tried the link above with no luck - attempted a few google searches....

Sure you can use linux/unix to talk to SQL Server.

Here's one:

http://www.freetds.org/

You wouldn't happen to have windows firewall running preventing access?

Did you have any luck looking elsewhere online? I haven't experienced it, but I was hoping the bootstrap/error logs will help.

So far it sounds.

- You have installed new SQL...

Not sure if relevant -

Have you seen this response to similar issue?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic952251-391-1.aspx

I wonder if yours applies?

Have you looked at the install logs if there is anything interesting there?

Actually found out they enabled windows firewall on the server so couldn't go out (oops) Thanks Lynn.

It's a shot in dark .. but I had a problem once with long running jobs that would not complete sometimes. It utilized TEMPDB heavily to create temptables, did...

Why do you think it's a space issue? Has it been successful in the past?

Are you using standard maintenance plan built by SQL Server?

Since everything has been normal except your re-build of index. DB size growth might be expected since a rebuild requires space. It is also is dependent if ...

You mention in the registry you see server A\A instance

Do you see 2 instances? (default and named)

example in registry might look

Microsoft SQL Server

|

---...

What do you see in the registry settings for the SQL Server?

If you use regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

SOFTWARE

MICROSOFT

...

Could you have set your filegroups for "no growth" or "restricted growth" as specified in the error?