Information_Schema disappears?

Recently we had a development server on WIN2K running SQL 2K. We noticed t
hat the Information_Schema views disappeared. We have no idea how. It appea
red to be about the time most recent patches were run. However, patches were
applied to many servers, a
nd the others all have Information_Schema.
We reinstalled (needed an os upgrade) the OS bringing it up to Win2003, and
reinstalled SQL2K. All patches were installed on both the operating system
and sql.
Information_Schema was present.
We have not reinstalled.
We have not rebooted.
Information_Schema is now not present.
Last week's queries against it now fail.
Any ideas?It appears that the views are still in Master, but have owner dbo.
They can only be accessed in Master, and don't have data for other db's.
What would cause this?
What can be done to correct?
Thanks!|||Any ideas on this?
It is truly vexing, and we'd appreciate some input here!!
Thanks.|||I've never seen or heard about this. Assuming you have searched KB already,
this sounds like an MS Support case to me...
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
"Linda" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Any ideas on this?
> It is truly vexing, and we'd appreciate some input here!!
> Thanks.