I always put the quorum resource group on the physical node where I want to run the install.

- I've also had these timeouts during the setup. Starting the instance manually worked in my cases.

- have you tried to run the sp3 install ( or the latest cumulative...

are you pointing your install to the correct resource group and drive letter ?

- Can you start the job using SSMS ?

- is the actual schedule active ?

- double check sqlagent is running.

- can you find something in the sqlagent.out logfile (please...

GilaMonster (7/20/2010)

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Jim McLeod (7/19/2010)

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I think we Southern Hemisphere people are going to have to have hot chocolate with marshmallows in protest of all this mouth-watering BBQ action. We've a...

If collaboration isn't considered a natural behaviour in an enterprise, it's up to the top level managers to enforce it !

All for the best interest of the company in the...

Having two members running for office, it will for sure be a heck of a SSC-party :w00t:

Good luck to both of you.

hxkresl (7/17/2010)

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I expanded the SQL Server Agent logs and found "An idle CPU condition has not been defined - OnIdle job schedule will have no effect".

Is it possible...

Paul already provided the answer, but partitioning need good preparation, to get the best results in the long term !

- Did you read through the BOL article on partitioning ?

-...

If space is an issue, would it be an alternative to use the "sliding window" technique to slide out the top left or right side of your partitioned objects, define...

Paul White NZ (7/17/2010)

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CirquedeSQLeil (7/17/2010)

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Tom.Thomson (7/17/2010)

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But I'll stretch and sick...

You should investigate this !

Have a look at the SQLAgent.OUT file, SQLServer's Errorlog file (to be found...

two first impressions :

1) I don't like using windows accounts for job owners ( had to much troubles with that in the early yaers )

Backup jobs are...

- do you have auto-update statistics enabled for the database ?

- how is the fragmentation rate of your indexes ?

Now we know why it's important to set your cellphone alert at the planned end time for the meeting :hehe:

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