check that the maintenance plan is actually completing and not failing on the last (or only) step.  It may be that the backups are there; but the plan is failing and...

Sorry, but I suspected it could not find g:\ because g:\ was not there...  I would still question permissions of the device; but I guess you have done that, too....

Thanks for the tip!  I think I would have done it otherwise; although log shipping was broken here when I arrived, and SP4 was already installed.

Ideally they would be more than "combined", they would be designed to be one database.  Eliminating "stovepipe application" is (or can be) a good thing; but if you are going...

So, that is a solution for you; but it is not generic... and not all databases have data in them to query, at some point in the life-cycle the database...

Do you physically have a G:\ drive?

Turns out that this is a very clever configuration to allow Standard Edition to be installed in a cluster configuration.  According to Microsoft in order to implement a "scale-out" configuration...

probably because this doesn't have anything to do with business intelligence... and it is a problem/issue/situation that everyone has - and there is usually no solution short of just putting...

I don't care what anybody says... that ad is about the neatest one I have ever seen.  Makes me want to go back to having sites just to use the...

Thank you David Scotland for an excellent link.  Sure seems like there is no conclusive answer without testing under load - which is often difficult to get the load in...

autogrow can cause unexpected fragmentation, both internal and external.  if you have a maintenance plan that regularly rebuilds indices, and an external program such as Diskeeper that is scheduled to...

Here is a bit of an equalizer perhaps...

Multicore processors, which consist of multiple processing execution units or “cores” on one chip, are seen as a promising way...

In my experience (not with just SQL Server), untested backups are worthless as much as 80% of the time.  And testing a backup with a restore or recovery needs more than casual...

if you install the trial of the full product.  not express.  You need to also install the tools, which used to be on the second CD - although I have...

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