Is Kahli a great dane? I love great danes. I had one for a while, but he had a problem with not respecting women and only obeyed me....

I hate to take a chance on jinxing my server, but I think we may have solved the problem.

Turn out that the battery on the PERC 3 card that controls...

And the biggest imaginary superhero would have to be god.

Someone thought of it. Someone believed it. Look what it's done so far.

(most thought provoking line ever uttered by a...

1. Wow, talk about bad acting

2. The cast are definitely ApexSql staff

3. I'm pretty sure that that song is copyrighted.

4. I'm pretty sure that 'Supergirl' is copyrighted.

and most importantly ....

Update :

1. updated drivers and new maintenance software from dell, problem still exists

2. drives seem to go into 'slow mode' when system is stressed for...

I have a coworker that for all the meals that he eats, he has to finish each food type on his plate before going to the next one. Like...

I just using SQL Server for my backups. Dump to disk, zip, then copy off machine daily. Then burned once a week to DVD-Rs.

I will take a look...

That would be nice if we had the money to do that.

Just an update. I have been working with dell and they did their Dset scan and found no problems. They had me download and ISO image that contains...

UT2004 & Warcraft III on my new 26" Acer flatscreen. Sweet, just sweet.

Here's the only message that raises a flag for me:

SQL Server has encountered 15 occurrence(s) of IO requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on file [E:\xxxx_Log.LDF] in database...

What is the -P startup switch?

I assume that you mean the Kernel Memory section of the Performance tab in Windows Task Manager?

How do I check this?

It's a Dell server. I think all the drives are 348gb segate Cheetahs. Dell machines come with a diagnostic service that runs continually, it reports no errors. ...