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  • RE: Where are you?

    PhilPacha (2/22/2010)


    Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A.

    Hey, my dad used to work in that town!

    Not very elaborate for a state capital, is it? @=)

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  • RE: Where are you?

    The armpit of Florida, Jacksonville.

    And, in the spirit of the misconceptions part of this thread:

    When my family moved out to Nebraska though (many years ago), some of my fellow...

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  • RE: Does the choice of Simple vs Full Rec. Model in non-system DBs affect tempdb space?

    Glad I could help.

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  • RE: Does the choice of Simple vs Full Rec. Model in non-system DBs affect tempdb space?

    Joy Smith San (3/23/2010)


    So it's better not to shrink the log unless it's too large.

    So that SQL server can use the same space in log and it doesn't have to...

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  • RE: Does the choice of Simple vs Full Rec. Model in non-system DBs affect tempdb space?

    So long as SQL Server does not need any more space for the transactions, it will re-use the current space in the log.

    Think of it like this: The transaction log...

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  • RE: Does the choice of Simple vs Full Rec. Model in non-system DBs affect tempdb space?

    Joy Smith San (3/20/2010)


    Granted the space will not be returned unless you shrink it

    Returned to what ? That sapce will not be used further.?

    Returned to the OS. Freed up for...

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  • RE: SQL 2005- job status in email

    See my post on page 1 of this thread. Create a brand new job to run every X number of minutes (however often you want), then pull the data from...

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  • RE: transaction log restore question

    Thanks, Gail. @=)

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  • RE: Unable to full backup

    Ask SSC??? What's the URL to the post? I'm not seeing it in the SQL Server 2005 -> Backups forum.

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  • RE: transaction log restore question

    Paul,

    It isn't a silly question. Developers should not have that ability on Production. In fact, there should be a tight throttle on the # of people who do have production...

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  • RE: Hourly backups + Weekly full = Overlap = problems???

    It's funny. This subject came up last night at our local users group. I'd never heard of it before then. Now you guys are talking about it on this thread....

    Bulk-logged...

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  • RE: jobs are runinng long time (urgent )

    Who is responsible for the actual server, the physical box? Who installs the OS, monitors patch updates, and might install an anti-virus program on the box?

    This is the person you...

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  • RE: transaction log restore question

    jorge.torralba (3/18/2010)


    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...

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  • RE: transaction log restore question

    CirquedeSQLeil (3/18/2010)


    Brandie Tarvin (3/18/2010)


    ... (keeping in mind you first have to restore the full db to SQL 2005 and it will be upgraded).

    You only need to restore the Primary...

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  • RE: Hourly backups + Weekly full = Overlap = problems???

    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...

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