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  • RE: MSDTC resource not coming online

    You should try what follows:

    Create manually the object named "mssqldtc"of type "computer" in your AD Domain through Active Directory Users & Computers. Disable it and then try again to bring...

    MCITP Database administrator 2008
    MCTS SQL Server 2008 Implementation and maintenance
    MCTS Sharepoint configuration
    MCP Designing Deploying and Managing a Network Solution for the Small and Medium-sized Business
    ITIL V3 Foundation
  • RE: Is Clusterd Index sort and store data in physical order in table?

    OK, OK, I surrender!

    I think I should stop believing MSDN statements like "Clustered indexes sort and store the data rows in the table based on their key values. There can...

    MCITP Database administrator 2008
    MCTS SQL Server 2008 Implementation and maintenance
    MCTS Sharepoint configuration
    MCP Designing Deploying and Managing a Network Solution for the Small and Medium-sized Business
    ITIL V3 Foundation
  • RE: Best practices for granular access to production databases for non-DBA users

    Pablo: Yes. Best practice is that non-DBA users don't do that kind of stuff.

    I agree. If it is just a Development server where they can play you might grant them...

    MCITP Database administrator 2008
    MCTS SQL Server 2008 Implementation and maintenance
    MCTS Sharepoint configuration
    MCP Designing Deploying and Managing a Network Solution for the Small and Medium-sized Business
    ITIL V3 Foundation
  • RE: Having Sharepoint on a multi instance SQL Server

    Management likes the word consolidation... A few questions:

    Is it SharePoint 2007 or 2010?

    How many SP users do you plan to have within three years from now?

    How many WFE, Search servers,...

    MCITP Database administrator 2008
    MCTS SQL Server 2008 Implementation and maintenance
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    MCP Designing Deploying and Managing a Network Solution for the Small and Medium-sized Business
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  • RE: Is Clusterd Index sort and store data in physical order in table?

    Not sure? I wonder why... MS says it is:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177443.aspx

    A primary key can be a nonclustered index, so the Primary key is no guarantee that rows are sorted after it unless...

    MCITP Database administrator 2008
    MCTS SQL Server 2008 Implementation and maintenance
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    MCP Designing Deploying and Managing a Network Solution for the Small and Medium-sized Business
    ITIL V3 Foundation
  • RE: Is Clusterd Index sort and store data in physical order in table?

    Yes, sure Clustered indexes store data rows in a sorted way based on the key values, this is their main characteristic.

    The consequence is that there can only be one clustered...

    MCITP Database administrator 2008
    MCTS SQL Server 2008 Implementation and maintenance
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    MCP Designing Deploying and Managing a Network Solution for the Small and Medium-sized Business
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  • RE: Restore DB from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008

    How will you manage the move without downtime? Won't the data be obsolete by the time you have backed-up, moved around and restored the 1TB Backup to the new server?...

    MCITP Database administrator 2008
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  • RE: OLE DB provider 'VFPOLEDB' cannot be used for distributed queries because the provider is configured to run in single-threaded apartment mode.

    As I do not have Visual FoxPro I can't help you much in this but I suppose you did create a linked server and did configure it under the advanced...

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  • RE: Back Up details

    Chris last option "export to SharePoint" is wonderful, instead! Why didn't I think about that one?:-D Users can setup an alert and get an email with the link to the...

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  • RE: Back Up details

    Then you can export directly into an Excel file using whether OPENDATASOURCE (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179856.aspx) or creating a linked server to an Excel file with a SELECT INTO from the nice query...

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    MCP Designing Deploying and Managing a Network Solution for the Small and Medium-sized Business
    ITIL V3 Foundation
  • RE: Back Up details

    There is a nice Powershell example from which you could build your own solution (this one creates an XL sheet as a report and sends it daily):

    http://hassanszone.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/powershell-script-for-backup-monitor-for-all-the-sqlservers-in-network/%5B/url%5D

    MCITP Database administrator 2008
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    ITIL V3 Foundation
  • RE: SQL 2008 R2 Installation - Missing Instance Features

    Are you sure that setup finished normally? Didi you see the final window confirming that setup was successful?

    I have had the SQL2008R2 Setup.exe crashing a few times: it would...

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  • RE: named instance issue

    Starting from SQL 2005 there are new limitations on instances names:

    SQL2005: must start with a letter or an underscore

    SQL2008 and R2: must start with a letter

    So, the answer...

    MCITP Database administrator 2008
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  • RE: A SQL deployment question for you guys

    Of course it depends on lots of things. In a production environment changes can be made during working hours if the risk of impacting business activity is really low and...

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    MCTS SQL Server 2008 Implementation and maintenance
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    ITIL V3 Foundation
  • RE: Rebuild master database problem

    Hello Marvin,

    the setup crash could be a WMI corruption (see MSDN Forums here)

    Kind regards

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