Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 08/16/06 21:16

Marc C (mchang@allosource.org) writes:
> Thanks for your reply. I get the error on boot/startup. It's possible I
> had a file open during the copy so the sql service cannot find a file
> at startup. I will look into the logs for more detailed errors when I
> try again during my next maintenance window. however the sql errorlog
> shows no entries during that time span -so it's likely sql never
> starts.

Hm, that would indicate that a DLL or somesuch is missing rather than a
database file.


--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx

[Back to original message]