James,
What you are facing is a bad install of the Enterprise Manager. As such the server and the databases are all fine and you should be able to connect to them from a
Enterprise manager on another box; but some DLL related to this particular Enterprise Manager is messed up. As I mentioned, you could still administer the server
from another box, even using Enterprise Manager, by installing only the client utilities on another box and then connect to the SQL Server from there.
To 'fix' the bad Enterprise Manager, you could call Microsoft SQL Support, or you might have to reinstall the SQL Server components on the box which is having the
problem.
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Rishi M. Agrawal, MCDBA
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| Subject: SQL Enterprise Manager using SP3 not allowing access
|
| I installed SP3i for SQL 7 running on Windows 2000 server and now I
| cannot access the database using the Enterprise Manager. I can still
| use the Query Analyzer to access the database as well as all of my web
| pages can access but I cannot access the database using the Enterprise
| Manager. The error that I receive is:
|
| A connection could not be established to XXXXXXX
| SqlDumpExceptionHandler: Process 8 generated fatal exception c0000005
| EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
| SQL Server is terminating this process.
|
| Please verify SQL Server is running and check you SQL Server
| registration properties and try again.
|
|
| I have verified the server registration and it is ok. At this point I
| am all out of ideas on what to do. I have rebooted all involved and
| tried to reinstall SP3i to no avail. Any help would greatly be
| appreciated.
|
| Thanks,
| Jim Litchford
|