Did you ever get a response to your initial question?  I'm in the same position and really don't want to enable Snapshot Isolation if I don't have to.

Kurt

A bit more background.... We are self-hosting a vendor supplied application so I didn't think about changing with the physical database attributes. Additionally because the vendor is rather tight...

OK so my initial post may have been somewhat inaccurate. What I did was put a report showing at what times the data file grew. I saw several...

I agree 100% There are a lot of constructs available in SQL Server. A lot of developers don't really understand the importance of using the right construct to...

EdVassie (2/6/2015)

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Kurt, I am assuming you have a VPN between your current data centres and AWS. ...

Greetings all;

Well this past weekend I was able to successfully move a VLD from a VM environment to the Amazon RDS.

To highlight the tool...

Solomon Rutzky (1/22/2015)

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Kurt, I have no idea what the difference...

Solomon, just wondering how much difference in performance is your DB_BulkCopy compared to creating an SSIS EXPORT/IMPORT package?

Kurt

Solomon Rutzky (1/21/2015)

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Kurt W. Zimmerman (1/20/2015)

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I need to run some benchmarks with SSIS and BCP to see which one is going to perform quicker. My working time window is...

Great Tim;

That is basically what I did. The only issue I had was with SQL Data Compare. Now that I got feedback on how to relocate...

Does your instance utilize true mirroring? and is it configured the same way as one would configure the mirror from one host to another?

Kurt

Have you done this? Can you further explain where I can move the database backup then access it via SSMS to restore it? It was my understanding one...

Thanks Steve.

Kurt

Great article, I should have come here first.

This thread may be a little old and there may be new features added to the Amazon RDS. But here...

USS