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  • RE: High Availabilty

    each option has its own pros and cons and has to be implemented based on evaluation of what are the needs of the architecture .... if you could post what...

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  • RE: Tool recommendations, please!

    have you considered SCOM ?

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  • RE: Deleting records from a huge table

    copying to another table would require another 135 GB on the disk ..... do we have that much space ...

    you could try a BCP with queryout to output to a...

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    -Amit
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  • RE: BAK File

    also you could try this

    RESTORE VERIFYONLY FROM backup_device WITH LOADHISTORY populates the columns of the backupmediaset table with the appropriate values from the media-set header.

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    -Amit
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  • RE: BAK File

    check the backupset table in msdb on the source of the backup server, it would have the type of backup and the file name

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    -Amit
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  • RE: Data Migration between sql server 2005

    run SQL upgrade advisor (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1470e86b-7e05-4322-a677-95ab44f12d75&displaylang=en)

    on a test server (restore backup from production) and go with the recommendations

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    -Amit
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  • RE: Backup with password

    you could try adding a step to you r backup job to compress it with winzip and protect it with password .... just a thought

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    -Amit
    Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach a man to fish and he wont get paged on weekends !! :w00t: - desparately trying to fish [/size]

  • RE: Too many replication jobs?

    the distribution agent runs as an OS process ... check the running processes in task manager ..... and I believe there is an upper limit to amount of such processes...

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    -Amit
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  • RE: Default Database

    sp_helplogins 'your loginame' would give you the default database name along with other info ...... If you are just looking for login name and default database .... you could...

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    -Amit
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  • RE: Windows Cluster Service and SQL 2005 multiple instances

    i think you could do an Active-Active cluster ... where both instances of SQL Server are Active and each runs on its different node of the the cluster. Shared Drive...

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    -Amit
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  • RE: Transaction Log Size

    nice explanation steve ....

    Yes, you can back up transaction log after your reindex operation. To keep log file size in check during the reindex process, i generally increase the frequency...

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    -Amit
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  • RE: UPDATE STATS WITH FULLSCAN - best way to implement?

    On one of the larger dbs (around 150 GB), I had the need to do reindexing/defrag and update stats on a daily basis. I used Michelle's script[/url] (one of the...

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    -Amit
    Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach a man to fish and he wont get paged on weekends !! :w00t: - desparately trying to fish [/size]

  • RE: job failed

    since the name TNS appeared I was suspicious about Oracle getting involved. Googled it and found many links for this. Most likely cause could be messed up entries in your...

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    -Amit
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  • RE: help with one sql query

    would adding an identity column help?

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  • RE: Not Installing BOL

    george sibbald (9/9/2009)


    I don't install BOL on production servers. People should not be using production server resources to lookup help.

    dont get me wrong ... but i am trying to figure...

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