I think the request is to identify where your SQL DB Backup files are located (hopefully you do backup your Databases). To backup the .mdf .ldf etc files SQL...

Nevermind I should have searched this forum:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/sql_server_dba/2011/12/13/cpu-count/

As long as you do not have the "REPLACE" parm in the restore command any current DB can not be overwritten as you will get an error message.

Also, you can use the sp_who2 proc to see IF another user has a connection to the DB.

You can either kill xxx (where xxx is the SPID of the user...

http://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_ssis

We request and build a B:\ drive for SQL Backups and Perfmon capture data (server and SQL counters) as part of our "default configuration" for our Servers/VMs. The backup...

We use all threee: Commvault SQL Agent, LightSpeed and SQL Native Backups (with compression). An issue w/Commvault COULD be the backups are scheduled and may not run when you...

Also, we format our SQL Drives with a 64k blocksize as the OS drive is formatted with the default 4k blocksize. We use separate drives for OS, SQL Data,...

I use this script to estimate a diff backup size:

http://dougzuck.com/category/technology/sql

Backup the DB,

Change the DB recovery model to simple,

Alter the DB to single_user mode,

Shrink in 5 GB "chunks".

How about 190 DB Servers, 218 SQL Instances, 3869 Databases and 57.9 TB of DB Storage (Today).

Set the DB to single user mode then shrink the data file in chunks:

--Shrink file size in 5000 MB chunks

--/* -- Set DB in Single User Mode

ALTER DATABASE ABC_EDW_LANDING

SET...

Connect to the SQL/Instance in Management Studio. At the top after the Instance Name will be the Build number.

For example, SQL01ABC (SQL Server 9.0.5292). Go to...

Yep still restarts with the same error message.

We usually run the diff restore with recovery. Then kick off your scheduled CheckDB job to verify all restored DB's are clean.