OK, I did it. It was along the lines of what you were saying, but I had to go through it this way.

AFTER all the stuff about stopping...

thanks for ideas, still stuck.

I am unable to connect to server in SSMS, I thought I had connected, but I keep getting the error that server is in...

SSMS - connected using Windows authentication

click New Query

error login faied for user.....domain\username

Server is in single user mode only one administrator can connect at a time. MS error 18461

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Years ago, I had a brief consulting job to be QA/tester on small implementation. Over and over the programmer would hand over program saying "no bugs", and of course...

From grasshopper

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I went ahead and tried it and it did not work.  In summary, you can't leap frog over a full backup to capture more transaction logs after starting from an...

Gotcha. (and thanks) Am doing so now.  Another question. 

While we were trying to recover from hardware failure, we thought all was well for a while.  I took another full...

Hello - I am new.  We have SQL 2005.  I used the instructions from Norene to work on a disaster recovery process.  We are attempting to demonstrate we have the...