In Microsoft SQL Server 2000, you receive one of the following error messages: Error message 1 Error = -2146828197 (800A005B) Error string: Object variable or With block variable not set Error source: DSO Error message 2 Error = -2147417848 (80010108) Error string: Object Invoked has dis

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(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) When we create a backup maintenance plan with one Full backup and transaction log backups for every 15 minutes, it is sometimes necessary to restore the FULL backup and all the corresponding transactional backups sequentially. This may happen if the production box goes down

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The Microsoft SQL Server Health and History Tool (SQLH2) allows you to collect information from instances of SQL Server, store this information, and run reports against the data in order to determine how SQL Server is being used.