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  • RE: Symantech Backup Exec 20.10 prompted several errors

    >> 3.What above error means from SQL Server prospective?

    That would mean that your database (ReportServer) is using the full or bulk-logged recovery models. This means that the transaction...

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  • RE: When is a Backup Considered Successful?

    Use DBCC CHECKDB. Preferably before the backup too. If after the restore, DBCC CHECKDB returns consistency errors, you can at least tell if the error was because the...

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  • RE: When is a Backup Considered Successful?

    Things you should be aware of re. RESTORE VERIFYONLY here.

    Verifying SQL Server backup files on a file server on a budget here.

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  • RE: Red Gate SQL Backup vs. Quest Lite Speed backup

    Sr SQL developer (10/29/2008)


    I was able to purchase 10 copies of SQL Backup Lite (without compression) for about the same price as 1 copy of LiteSpeed.

    The Lite version does support...

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  • RE: No backup history in MSDB, only in errorlog

    Art (10/22/2008)


    Nobody has deleted any rows on msdb.

    How can you tell for sure? In SQL Server 2005, there's a sp_delete_database_backuphistory stored procedure, that can be used to delete backup/restore history...

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  • RE: Transaction Log a part of Full backup????

    SQLBOT (10/17/2008)


    Here is what happens on a full database backup

    1. lock database blocking all transactions

    2. place a mark in the tran log

    3. release the database lock

    4. back up all data...

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  • RE: Red Gate SQL Backup vs. Quest Lite Speed backup

    ... because you can restore an individual table without having to restore the entire Database

    Restoring an invididual table from a backup may not always give you the same data...

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  • RE: Cannot copy 2000 db to 2005 using detach/attach

    If you made a backup in sql 2000 you cannot restore it on sql 2005...

    Have you ever tried doing this for real, to validate that statement?

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  • RE: Shrinking the log file

    Is that still the case if doing a shrink of the log file with truncate_only, as the OP was doing?

    Yes.

    I would like to know what are the options I...

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  • RE: Shrinking the log file

    Inserting dummy records is no longer necessary in SQL Server 2005, as shown in the example. SQL Server handles that for you when you attempt to shrink the log....

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  • RE: Cannot copy 2000 db to 2005 using detach/attach

    I would suggest checking the permissions of the SQL Server service startup account against the folders where the database files are located, and the file permissions itself. The description...

    SQL BAK Explorer - read SQL Server backup file details without SQL Server.
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  • RE: Shrinking the log file

    You can shrink a transaction log file only up to the boundary of a virtual log file. See this link for details.

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  • RE: backup with truncate_only problems

    Our system has 20 inserts a second.

    Your post suggests that your database is still active when the index rebuild is running. If so, you should also consider if you...

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  • RE: Another Backup scenario

    That would depend if you have ever performed a full backup of that database. If not, that database would behave as if it was running in the simple recovery...

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  • RE: Performance Implications of Database Snapshots

    So the performance impact is most noticeable when your database is UPDATE/DELETE heavy, but not if its INSERT heavy.

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