Becareful with VNC, it transters data in TEXT, meaning you can be prone to sniffer and "internal" hackers.

Yes, but I put it in the wrong catalogue and therefore there was no response.

Even if it is a backup file, I do not need it for whatever reason....

it is not a backup file. In fact, it seems like the SQL Server generated this log when it encounters some exceptions. The sheer size is around 2 GB. Also,...

How do we know if the HT is turned on from within the OS ? Is there any settings to tell or we need to reboot to get into BIOS...

Any idea where the job status is kept ? I mean in my scheduled job, I still need to select some status from somewhere. Thanks.

Perhaps, I did not make myself clear. Some other posts in the newsgroup suggests that when the installation kicks in, it will uncompress the file to c:\documents and settings\administrator\local...

Mystery ! I tried to install SP4 on the prod box, I noticed that there were some files missing after installation. They were Isql.exe, semcomn.dll, semrepl.dll, sfc.dll, sqlgui.dll, sqlns.dll,...

Thanks for the info. How do you create linked server in the first place ?

Thanks a lot. Antares686. It matches on both areas. I DO appreciate your assistance on that. At this point, I think I am doing okay with the SP4 installation.

Thanks a lot. Antares686. It matches on both areas. I DO appreciate your assistance on that. At this point, I think I am doing okay with the SP4 installation.

Thanks for your reply, Antares686, but what exactly am I checking in both EM and Explorer ? Could you kindly elaborate ? Thanks.

Thanks, I did not get any error because I just could not find the server name on the list of SQL-server in my domain (as it is located in another...

Thanks for your reply. If I may ask one more question, how I can collect the max and used size of all databases ?