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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Roy Ernest (6/19/2009)


    Paul White (6/19/2009)


    Kit G (6/19/2009)


    Kermit the Frog?

    Win.

    lol... You both cracked me up.... 😀

    Jabba the Hutt?

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  • RE: TempDB mdf file has grown to 11GB

    george sibbald (6/18/2009)


    sarvesh singh (6/18/2009)


    Thank you all again for ur responses;

    Managed to get a planned downtime to restart the sql server.

    Also i added the estimate only clause to...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Luke L (6/19/2009)


    Please go boil your head

    Quote of the day/week/month/year?

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  • RE: Backup of Standby DB (Transaction logs)

    If you have the .mdf and .ldf you can simply attach the database, no restore involved. If it's truly a .bak, then it's restore database.

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  • RE: TempDB mdf file has grown to 11GB

    Larger queries may also try and resolve themselves in tempdb. The reality is, what's running on the server? And then, whay are your resources so limited? You should have enough...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Kit G (6/16/2009)


    Cubs? I don't follow football... or it is baseball? :hehe:

    Sometimes we're not sure! 😛

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    RBarryYoung (6/16/2009)


    Most trolls suffer from some kind of brain damage or other mental disability. Or both. And this makes them funny when they try to act like...

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  • RE: Large (and growing) database administration/considerations

    ps (6/15/2009)


    Antero Ruiz (6/15/2009)


    We can't run a full weekly backup because we don't have enough storage for the gigantic backup file, besides, when it was just 10TB we tried to...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Dang, gone for 48 hours, missed 50+ posts and one "ubernoob" (superboob?).

    Gail, please don't think about not posting because of one jerk. You're better than that and I know...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Roy Ernest (6/12/2009)


    oops.... Sorry... vary and wary...

    My apologies to you, just yanking your chain. It's Friday and I'm feeling fine!

    Roy Ernest (6/12/2009)


    I need a good spell checker that can read...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Roy Ernest (6/12/2009)


    I am a bit vary of that idea...

    Personally, I'd be a bit "wary"...;-) What's that old saying? "Don't vary, be happy"

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  • RE: droping index

    I'm not saying never do it as one-off events do occur. The point is, and I should've stated it in my previous post, if you shrink the data file (not...

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  • RE: droping index

    Tom Brown (6/10/2009)


    Deleting data does not free up the space on the hard-disk.

    You need to shrink the files

    see DBCC SHRINKFILE in BoL

    Don't shrink the files unless you're out of disk...

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  • RE: Is it possible to move Master database?

    To migrate logins see the link below for a nice little stored proc. I just did what you're attempting to do and this worked perfectly.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246133/

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  • RE: Transaction log backup failed message

    Correct. As I stated, it'll also allow you to practice point in time recovery. You can also run RESTORE VERIFYONLY (see BOL) against the backup file which will also validate...

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