Jobs failing with the error – job can not start as it is suspended

If you look in the SQL Agent error logs it should record the problem - Subsystem %s could not be loaded.

When this happens you need to run this script:

use msdb;
delete from msdb.dbo.syssubsystems;
exec msdb.dbo.sp_verify_subsystems 1;
go

Now restart the SQL Agent

Reference

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=914171

Properties and other dialogs failing in SSMS

Error Message in SSMS



TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
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Cannot show requested dialog.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Cannot show requested dialog. (SqlMgmt)

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There is no row at position 0. (System.Data)



Problem is to do with system table spt_values being deleted.

Run this script to repair - the location may be different on your server.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\MSSQL.1\install\u_tables.sql

Error when using linked server

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
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Failed to retrieve data for this request. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum)

For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&LinkId=20476

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)

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The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object 'xp_prop_oledb_provider', database 'mssqlsystemresource', schema 'sys'. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 229)

For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=09.00.4266&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=229&LinkId=20476

FIX
GRANT EXECUTE ON xp_prop_oledb_provider TO [UserDomain\Account Name];

Error when using dtutil to deploy SSIS packages

BIDS Helper is deploying packages...

Deploying to SQL Server MSDB on server: NAMEOFSERVER

Error : BIDS Helper encountered an error when deploying package PACKAGENAME.dtsx!

"c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\DTS\binn\dtutil.exe" /FILE "PATHTOPACKAGE.dtsx" /DestServer NAMEOFSERVER /COPY SQL;"Package" /Q

exit code = 6

Microsoft (R) SQL Server SSIS Package Utilities

Version 9.00.4035.00 for 32-bit

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-2004. All rights reserved.

Could not save package "PACKAGE" because of error 0x80004005.

Description: Cannot open database "msdb" requested by the login. The login failed.

Source: Microsoft SQL Native Client

Had to give the user's account access to msdb and the dts_admin and dts_operator roles.

An error occurred while executing batch

I ran a query which resulted in this:
An error occurred while executing batch. Error message is: The directory name is invalid.

The reason for this was an invalid temp directory. The system was pointing at c:\temp but the directory did not exist. I re-pointed all the temp and tmp environment variables at the real temp directory and all was well again.