Another question:

So would this be a duration of Wall Clock time or CPU time consumption ?

Great !  Thanks for the quick reply !

 We have quite a few SQL Server installations here and I use this feature for all backups. I think it is wonderful and simple to set up. Unlike Oracle where...

Very interesting article. When IBM came out with the capacity on demand I thought that was a great idea. I don't think IBM  advertises well enough though. Oracle continues to...

  We have quite a few software packages running on SQL Server here. It is amazing when a tech. person comes to install their app. and they either create or...

Not sure if this helps. But what I did is ran a job and forced it to fail. Gave this information from the EVENT LOG showing this failure to the...

I saw that the Beta was out myself. I had thought I heard that there was not going to be a SP4 just hotfixes... Oh well.

Are you talking about the ID/Passwords that run the SQL Server services ? If so, my understanding is that you go into Ent. Manager, make the changes and then either...

Over the years the ID I use for installing and administering SQL Server has gotten way to many rights... and we have so many SQL Servers now... In talking with...

Thanks, I am kind of a history buff so I enjoyed the article. I too like the e-mail notification system. Sometimes I post a question and get busy an email...

Sorry, I am mistaken... I was thinking of PSSDIAG not SQLDiag.... my mistake..

It will run continuously until you stop it.

Beautiful !  Thanks, that did the trick. I knew I was just missing something.

Dare I say... You MIGHT want to contact your Microsoft rep. They MAY be willing to help you... I know here Oracle used to not exist and we were a...

I noticed this as a problem for me on a MSDE2000 install on a Win2000 workstation. The answer I got was a change in the registry will fix the problem...