hmm .. and nothing in the windows event logs?

When the server is up have you done a sweep of checkdb etc.

I'm sorry but experience tells me that the statement ( it's not a bug in our ERP ) is missguided, especially as you're getting deadlocks which are an application issue....

the forum has a section on third party tools - I use sql diagnostic manager, have done for about 8 or 9 years, it handles all this effortlessly and allows...

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sql server doesn't normally stop and restart without some kind of message. What is reported in the event and sql logs?

Do you have any dmp files created, they'll be...

If deadlocks are a problem then enabling trace flags will store all the data you need in the sql log, but you do get large logs so need to use...

I keep pointing out that the sql performance memory recommendations are not complete. As with all things it just depends, but the /3gb switch can give problems. Read Ken Henderson's...

you should be aware that if you're using awe memory you need an additional patch, and, there are I'm told issues with sp4, you might want to apply rollup 2187...

if you have them in a loop it should carry on regardless, the other way is to work out which is the next log to be restored thus avoiding the...

dbccc updateusage is usually pretty quick to run and isn't as much of a problem as other dbcc commands. I run this daily on every database, but at the quietest...

it only becomes a problem if you find it a problem, one person's large database is another's small?

Using multiple devices increases complexity, as does multiple filegroups. Litespeed will make short...

this counter shows the average time it takes an io to complete in ms.

If you choose physical disk then I guess you'll get one value, if you choose logical then...

this is not true with awe. as far as I am sure , memeory is not swapped out with awe, once taken it's kept. Again this is documented in ms...

you generally don't need to increase the page file size on a sql server as sql server is designed not to page. You might try removing the /3gb switch, I've...

my experience is that a mail client won't stop a failover. I assume you're using cluster admin to achieve this?

As posted above you need to set the outlook client on...