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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    So, skirting the edge of the "no tech speak in The Thread" rule...

    How is your first week of 2012 shaping up work wise? Are you in firefighting mode with month...

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    January 3, 2012 at 6:01 am

    #1427670

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Belated Happy New Year to everyone. I hope things go well and all the bad things that happened to you stay behind in 2011.

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    January 2, 2012 at 6:59 am

    #1427422

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Evil Kraig F (12/30/2011)

    My favorite RPG of all time was Shadowrun. 2nd Edition. I recently tried to GM a campaign (well, recently being a year and a half...

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

    January 2, 2012 at 6:57 am

    #1427420

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Dev (12/30/2011)

    Brandie Tarvin (12/29/2011)

    GSquared (12/29/2011)

    There are disk speed test tools available (some are free). Test the disk. It's possible it's too slow for use this way.

    That's...

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    January 2, 2012 at 6:54 am

    #1427418

  • RE: "Null value is eliminated by an aggregate" Error without aggregates

    Thank you both. It never occurred to me that SQL would treat DISTINCT the same way it treats aggregate functions (via error code), even though I know the basics of...

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

    January 2, 2012 at 6:24 am

    #1427416

  • RE: SA Password Unknown

    Would the DAC account help in a scenario like this? Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

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    January 2, 2012 at 5:35 am

    #1427404

  • RE: SA Password Unknown

    I've never had to, so I can't tell you the consequences of doing so. But a few years back, I know of one SSC poster who swore by a specific...

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

    December 29, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    #1426654

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GSquared (12/29/2011)

    There are disk speed test tools available (some are free). Test the disk. It's possible it's too slow for use this way.

    That's a good point. I'll check...

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

    December 29, 2011 at 11:55 am

    #1426630

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GSquared (12/29/2011)

    Brandie Tarvin (12/29/2011)

    Question for those of you commenting on external drives. The few times I have tried it (both on a local db on my laptop and from a...

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    December 29, 2011 at 11:43 am

    #1426620

  • RE: Database in 'Recovery Pending' State -Error 945

    Forget about creating a new .LDF file. You can't do anything right now anyway except follow the steps as they were given you.

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    December 29, 2011 at 11:38 am

    #1426613

  • RE: Database in 'Recovery Pending' State -Error 945

    Vertigo44 (12/29/2011)

    This was a server that one of our customers purchased and never told us about until a week ago. It was not even located in our datacenter. They are...

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    December 29, 2011 at 10:54 am

    #1426586

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Question for those of you commenting on external drives. The few times I have tried it (both on a local db on my laptop and from a server remotely), I...

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    December 29, 2011 at 10:36 am

    #1426578

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (12/29/2011)

    GSquared (12/29/2011)

    Dev (12/29/2011)

    I thought some "Magic" (recovery trick) will happen & that DB will be saved. It’s a nice learning opportunity that I missed. However the...

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    December 29, 2011 at 10:32 am

    #1426576

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (12/29/2011)

    Grant Fritchey (12/27/2011)

    Based on the fact that we can't get people to run good sets of backups despite Umptymillion articles, blog posts, presentations, webcasts and screaming lightning talks, I...

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

    December 29, 2011 at 8:38 am

    #1426480

  • RE: Database in 'Recovery Pending' State -Error 945

    Just to append for future readers:

    A backup of a drive where the .ldf, .mdf, or .ndf files live is not a SQL Server backup. From my experience, if the backup...

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

    December 29, 2011 at 8:37 am

    #1426479

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