“cannot execute script” error in SQL Server Management Studio

Question

I frequently get the following error when attempting to execute simple statements against a remote instance of SQL Server 2005. I click execute, the window hangs for several seconds, then I get the error. I click OK, click Execute again, and it runs fine. This happens frequently enough to be very annoying.

Last week I worked exclusively against a local instance and didn't have this problem once. I was also not on the corporate domain all week (business trip).

My machine is Vista.

What's causing this issue? How do I resolve?

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
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Cannot execute script.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Access to the path 'C:\Users\[chloraphil]\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp873B.tmp' is denied. (mscorlib)

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BUTTONS:

OK
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Answer 1

Problem went away when my hard drive died :)

Answer 2

Try deleting all the files in the temp folder in the error message. Ignore errors on files that are open by other processes. I had over 3 GB of files there.

Answer 3

I double-clicked on the .sql script when it was inside a zip file, it opened in SQL Server Management Studio - but when I tried to execute it - it gave me this error.

Move/Unzip the .sql script outside of the archive and it will run.