we have a 2 tiered policy. the master writable db's we send one full backup out of the month to offsite storage and i'm restoring a copy from 3 years...

i'm in, thx

just hope you are going to keep the open networkers who have nothing to do with SQL out of it. i'm in a few groups with them and...

try to reboot the server or restart sql

i had something similar twice. one time the db went suspect because of no space on the drive. another time server rebooted and...

i have always detached the db, moved the files and then attach again. when you attach it will first not find the file and you have to point to it...

run a search in the scripts, there are a bunch that will catch deadlocks

we run a few of them every 2 minutes, they write to a table and send us...

i did this a few months ago, will have to find what i did

do you see it recovering in the list of databases?

check the sql log and it will tell you how far it's done and how much left to go

we have a few clusters and a DR site in another state

for a cluster it takes around 10 seconds to failover to the other node. downside is taht depending on...

looks like there is a group now

one of my contacts just joined and i sent a request as well

management problem

there was a story this weekend where one of the co-workers was a source. this guy took all the responsibility on himself and thought he was the only one...

why not set up replication again and then deleting it again?

i use Veritas and Evault

Veritas we've had for 8 years. we run it on a unix server and have an old Quantum tape robot. we backup 20-30 sql servers and...

i'd...

did you buy it from a valid reseller or Joe's Software Emporium that is run out of the back of a truck?

more hype than anything else, wait a few years

anyone know how they got around the write limit? last i heard there was a limit on the number of writes you...