It can be surprising how many times a tape backup needs a second tape, but this tape never gets mounted. The backp then hangs until someone notices it, often...

Knowing the memory usage for a database is not particularly useful.

I have worked on DB2 for z/OS, where information of this type can be obtained. The really useful information...

If you have custom DTS tasks, the backup and restore will affect the package definition, but will of course not include the custom DLL files. Restoring an old MSDB...

Are you using a Job Output File (seen in the Advanced tab on thejob step)? We had a problem where the proxy account could not open this file, even...

Why is the plan bad? Is it using parallelism? Have you tried turning this off?

Also, if you have set SQL memory to the maximum on the box, you...

Your problem may be related to adjacent-key locking.

When you do a insert or delete, SQL locks the adjacent key as well as the record you are processing. This is...

My understanding of the theory is:

1) You need to read what BOL says about this

2) You need to be running W2K or above & SQL2K

3) You need to talk to...

If user fred is a member of SYSADMIN, then any object they create will have a default owner of DBO. Also, fred can explicitly create an object with the...

The main problem about increasing transaction log backup frequency to cope with peak loads is that you are imposing a high frequency of log backups when load is low.

We backup...

You can also give your user DDLADMIN authority in TempDB. This will allow a user with only Bulkadmin authority to BCP (etc) into a temporary table.

You then have the...

Looks like Measure Up points are best.

Working on the principle in the documentation that SQL7 can receive replicated data from SQL2K, but SQL2K cannot receive replicated data from SQL7, then...

You almost certainly need the DB2 ODBC driver. These are free in the DB2 install media. You will get better performance if you use a product called 'DB2...

A slightly OT comment on NTFS compression, at least on NT4...

If you copy a file over 2GB over the network to a NTFS compressed folder it is VERY...

I agree that while defrag is running, performance may be bad. This could be a reason to not use auto-defrag products. However, if you run the defrag in...

I may be missing something... why do you think that Windows defrag will be a problem with RAID arrays

All information provided is a personal opinion that may not match reality.