Lynn Pettis (1/16/2009)

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Jason Shadonix (1/16/2009)

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Yes and no.

I used to work for a not-for-profit company that had SQL Server and Access, but no decent devleopment tools. (Couldn't/wouldn't pay for decent...

The link Colin provided above didn't work for me but this one did. Thanks for sharing - looking forward to the read.

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/grumpyolddba/archive/2009/01/14/tracking-contention-on-the-san-testing-times.aspx

Mike - Thanks for the clarification. What GSquared was recommending is as you stated, having 2 instances on the same box. And you could do as he described putting the...

Hence my question earlier about the volume group (set of disks) being dedicated. Hopefully that is the configuration. If not you get phantom IO issues to chase down and the...

Shripati - To get more details on the space required when doing the restore you can run the following;

restore filelistonly from disk = 'D:\YourFolder\YourBackup.bak'

The output from that will...

Then you are going to want something comprehensive that will either pull it all to tape or some remote disk as Jason already stated. You will need to consider if...

All good points and to further what Gints is saying, you do have to take into consideration what skills are prevalent in your organization and / or your community. Where...

Have you looked at Data Protection Manager from MS? Check it out. Definitely worthy of a look.

Sorry, good question. Yes, faster, and better price performance especially since we were using partitioning which is...

We actually did what you describe Jeff, we had a "run off" with Oracle 10G and SQL Server 2005 in a data warehouse conversion test. Both 64-Bit on Itanium (this...

Steve - Should we change the title of this topic to "Are the posters becoming more violent"? 😀

Have to agree with Michael on this and appreciate all the points he makes. It has been a few years since I have had to work with Oracle but they...

Nice catch. Didn't even see that before. Ack...:sick:

Jeff Moden (1/14/2009)

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Greg Edwards (1/14/2009)

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I'm thinking Gail is going who needs a 44 Magnum, when you have H&H's around.

Maybe you better think about upgrading Jeff. I'd hate for you to...

Just to clarify, you are actually backing up the log during...