jorge.torralba (3/18/2010)

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I think the best solution for us will be database snapshots every 15 minutes. This comes with a price. Losing transactions between snapshots. But, restore time is just a...

CirquedeSQLeil (3/18/2010)

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You only need to restore the Primary...

Be very careful about using compression & encryption on your database backups at the same time. These two tools don't play play well together and can hose your backup files.

To...

Do they know what tempdb...

shusta (3/17/2010)

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So would it be safe to say that each night when this Full Mode database is backed up it's backed up in its entirety including the data in the...

Starterm,

Go ahead and start a new topic for this issue. Your problem seems to be different than the OP. The OP is having trouble making a File backup. Your problem...

jorge.torralba (3/17/2010)

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Wasn't an app. It was a developer dba running a script that dropped the tables. Thought I could go back in time to a point without having tio restore...

Glad we could help.

Please answer the other questions so we know what you've checked and what you haven't checked. Otherwise, we can't help you further.

Your post is a little hard to read, so forgive me if I don't quite understand the problem.

Is it just Maint. Plans that are taking forever or is it all...

parthi-1705 (3/17/2010)

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I am having a 30 million records i need to delete 25 million old records with minimum log how it can be done there will be continues users accessing...

That's actually a pretty good idea. The only thing to keep in mind, though, is that it will potentially stripe the data across the files or shove them all in...

You do realize you can get better performance out of your DB if these LUNS really are separate drives (physically speaking) and you apportion out your tables properly, right? This...

Check Books Online for the system tables. In the Index, type in "sys" (without the quotes) and it will take you right to them. BOL gives you the table names,...

Also, if the folder destination does not exist, xp_cmdshell will NOT create it as part of the copy, unlike several other windows programs which will.