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  • RE: SQL Server Needs Incremental Updates

    I completely agree with Brian.

    There are a number of issues here...

    1) Comparisom with other vendor's release stategy.

    My main experience is with DB2.  When IBM are near to making a new...

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  • RE: Clearing connection before detachDB

    I would set the database offline.  Even a single user connected would stop the DETACH working.

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  • RE: MDSE Using too much memory

    Use the same process as you would on a normal SQL Server database.

    Connect to the MSDE instance in Enterprise Manager, right-click and select Properties, then set the required memory on...

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  • RE: Disk Performance Audit- important metrics??

    The System Monitor disk counters can give misleading results with SQL Server.

    SQL continually monitors how long it takes for a disk read request to complete.  If I-O time is slow, SQL will...

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  • RE: SAN Drive configuration for best performance

    There is very little on newsgroups or in Microsoft documentation about how W2000 or W2003 manages disk I-O.  Certainly this is true when compared to mainframe z/OS, where ther are...

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  • RE: SAN Drive configuration for best performance

    It is not possible to give generic advice about placing TempDB data and logs on the same controller.  You will have to test this using your own hardware.

    However, you can...

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  • RE: SAN Drive configuration for best performance

    You should work with your SAN vendor in deciding which type of RAID to use.  We are installing some HDS 9970v SANs, and have confidence in Hitachi's recommendation of formatting...

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  • RE: MAPI logon Failure? Why now?

    xp_Stopmail is fine to do on the command line, but beware of including it in an application.

    One of our developers thought it would be 'safer' to wrap a xp_sendmail within...

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  • RE: MAPI logon Failure? Why now?

    You definitely need to troubleshoot MAPI problems by being logged on using the SQL Server service account.  Anything else is normally a waste of time.

    As to the question 'Why now?',...

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  • RE: Advice: RepliStor vs DoubleTake vs Storage Replicator

    The evaluation was done before I joined the organisation.  We have done mini-evaluations since then, and confirmed that no other Windows-based replication tool offers superior facilities to D-T.  Some match...

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  • RE: Advice: RepliStor vs DoubleTake vs Storage Replicator

    We are currently using Double-Take in production to replicate both databases and application files for Active/Passive failover.   Our average latency between our current main and DR sites about 10 km...

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  • RE: Giving users rights to execute SQL Agent Jobs

    As suggested, you can use TargetServersRole, but with modified permissions.  This will allow users access to all jobs.  If you give them the ability to add/change/delete jobs, this will apply...

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  • RE: Insufficient space to restore database

    If your database files took up 30GB of disk space when you made the backup, then you will need 30GB of spare disk space when you do the restore.  This...

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  • RE: How to ensure order is kept in import from csv

    If you define an ID column in your table you can load your data using DTS.  All that should be needed is for the DTS package to name all the...

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  • RE: How to ensure order is kept in import from csv

    The behaviour is NOT guaranteed.  You need to understand what is meant by 'order' in a relational database, and how this interacts with a DTS load.

    The physical order in which...

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