Article ID: 173847
Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q173847
BUG #: 17114 (WINDOWS: 6.5)
SYMPTOMS
The SQL Maintenance utility, SQLMaint.exe, ends in the following error if the path contains a period:
Error: The system cannot find the path specified.
For example, the following command gets the error:
SQLMaint.exe -D master -CkCat -Rpt E:\MSSQL6.5\LOG\master.log
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, remove the period from the path, as in the following example:
SQLMaint.exe -D master -CkCat -Rpt E:\MSSQL65\LOG\master.log
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SQL Server version 6.5. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
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