MCP (master control program)

Good question.

GilaMonster (3/8/2010)

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I kinda enjoy fixing bad databases. It's very satisfying to take something that's working badly and get tremendous gains in performance from it or to re-engineer a process so...

+1 For Roy.

Paul White (3/8/2010)

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I can relate. If I had $1 for every time someone had said, "We just need something quick and dirty - you can do your flash database...

Roy Ernest (3/8/2010)

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I think DBAs are the most hated people in the IT industry.... 🙂

But there are lots of developers who wants to do it right. There are only...

Thanks for posting back with your resolution.

Steve Jones - Editor (3/7/2010)

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I think it makes sense to spend some time learning some of these, especially the ones that you use on a regular basis. Those you ought...

Jeff Moden (3/6/2010)

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I agree that having tools are good and every DBA should strive to learn as much about them as they can... if, for nothing else, to learn of...

I agree with this assessment. This tool can be useful, and can be very detrimental. ...

bitbucket-25253 (3/7/2010)

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Used to work for company where the first offense was...

sameh.hamza (3/7/2010)

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Hi All,

We have a SQL server 2005 db which we are going to deploy on customer's server(will be accessed by our application), we need to do the followings:

1- Prevent...

iamthemanx (3/7/2010)

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what do you mean with "fun" , are you...

First some reading material on the subject.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757854(WS.10).aspx

VSS is used to create a copy/backup of the volume. Thus, when it kicks off, you will see a higher Disk Queue length.

CHeck out this article on how to disable the service, as well as for some info on the service

http://en.kioskea.net/faq/2679-turning-off-volume-shadow-copy

Another article about the disabling of certain services

http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2004/12/26/332540.aspx