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  • RE: Best 3rd party management tools?

    Oh that's AWESOME! On the Termservs there will be Progress databases so this would also let me monitor those databases and make sure the service was at least running...

  • RE: Best 3rd party management tools?

    So it looks like about 3x the price to use Idera vs RedGate. I mean I don't mind paying more but not that much more. If the Quest...

  • RE: Best 3rd party management tools?

    MysteryJimbo (11/23/2011)


    I went the opposite way when I did my product assestment.

    I found Spotlight is pretty (impressive for management) but too full of fluff and not intuitive to...

  • RE: Best 3rd party management tools?

    MysteryJimbo (11/23/2011)


    I went the opposite way when I did my product assestment.

    I found Spotlight is pretty (impressive for management) but too full of fluff and not intuitive to...

  • RE: Best 3rd party management tools?

    Yeah see monitoring SQL is the first priority but if I can throw in my IIS and termservs too? Well that's just G-R-A-V-Y and would make my life so...

  • RE: Shrink and backup

    @dev: Sure! It definitely is a multi-million dollar investment. I have the real details around here somewhere but the short of it is a true...

  • RE: Shrink and backup

    GilaMonster (11/22/2011)


    Chris Metzger (11/22/2011)


    Am I just being blase about it or are some ppl just overly paranoid?

    Both.

    Am I correct in saying you've never dealt with a disaster scenario?

    Sure - I...

  • RE: Shrink and backup

    GilaMonster (11/22/2011)


    Chris Metzger (11/22/2011)


    Jim (and anyone else): there will NEVER be a controller failure.

    I'd be very hesitant to say 'never'. Very, very unlikely, sure, but I've seen a...

  • RE: Shrink and backup

    Jim Murphy (11/22/2011)


    Ah, I see.

    If disk space permits, it is always a great idea to retain more. Moving those backups off to tape/NAS throughout the day is...

  • RE: Shrink and backup

    Dev (11/22/2011)


    I will always have Plan B & C with me if Plan A fails.

    It may not match with your justifications but I would keep minimum 3 FULL...

  • RE: Shrink and backup

    Jeffrey Williams 3188 (11/22/2011)


    What would you do if the database was corrupted right before your backup? And you didn't catch it before the next transaction log backup was run?

    What...

  • RE: Best 3rd party management tools?

    Yeah I'm going to have to load both and test them out.

    @anthony.green - no I was speaking about the host itself not the guest. The hosts are...

  • RE: Best 3rd party management tools?

    The Spotlight from Quest Software looks cool too - I don't need to monitor the underlying VM host (plus I don't have access to it so whatever I choose will...

  • RE: Shrink and backup

    Jeffrey Williams 3188 (11/21/2011)


    I think you might want to rethink some of this...

    Having a rolling 24 hours of transaction logs means you have created a broken log chain scenario. ...

  • RE: Best 3rd party management tools?

    Thanks! Yeah I'm thinking the DBA bundle is what's going to work best. I need to be able to monitor 2 primary SQL Servers, one mirror, and one...

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