We encountered exactly the same issue on our databases with snapshots, the difference being that ours are around 15TB rather than 25GB (and growing by 600GB a month). In...

completely different 🙂

We use Snapshots in our production system, what I am wondering is whether the snapshots for the tests were on the same disks as the main database file, or seperate...

yep, definately horses for courses 🙂

Speaking as someone with a DB on it's way to 4TB (growing by around 35-40 GB a week now :w00t: ) I have to agree with everything mentioned above.

You might...

good Article, something that I never expected to be doing but actually seem to spend a lot of my time with 🙂

We did this too, but automated it in a SP so that we could pass the filename etc.

it's a solution, but I prefer to stream them in wherever possible.

Budgets are easy (lol), power and heat capacity planning for hosting centres, now thats hard

Our system grows by around 35GB each week (but...

Hi Rex,

Your story really touched my heart, I bought a ticket and only wish that I could have bought more.  I know how hard it is when my kids are...

It has to be trying to get iFilters for full-text indexing working on an itanium2 server, i spent ages on the phone to MS before getting the right person (John...

lol, just think of the ongoing consultancy, 1-2 days training at a couple of K per day, basically setting up maintenance plans etc so they think they're getting their money's...

I agree, I have no problem with iSCSI for Development or UAT servers, but prefer to stick with FC4 for production

That looks suspiciously similar to my phone, although mine is a month old now so is probably obsolete

Generally I agree, there's next to...

oh yeah, and a stag do tomorrow

Go-karting, curry, entertainment, that sort of thing

New Hobby, Archery

oh yeah, and no doubt a BBQ at some point too