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Repeated shrink and growth of a database will always lead to bad NTFS file fragmentation. This will give continuing bad performance to your database.
The only way to fix NTFS fragmentation...
January 26, 2004 at 5:46 am
The answer is yes it should, but no it does not.
Looking back at the early days of when partitions were implemented in mainframe DB2, very similar problems occurred. It took...
January 23, 2004 at 2:49 am
Expiry or disablement of the SQL Server agent account is the most common cause of this problem. Other potential causes are:
a) SQL Server Agent account deleted as a SQL Server...
January 22, 2004 at 4:40 am
A final point... one thing missing from your maintenance plan is backups. You are doing backups...?
For most sites, a full daily backup is the best option. Transaction log backups can...
January 16, 2004 at 4:19 am
Running items 1 and 2 daily is probably overkill, and running item 3 at all is too often.
1) Integrity check
You need to balance your trust in the reliability of your...
January 16, 2004 at 4:13 am
There are some possible answers...
It is possible that the #temp insert did not require and file growth for either the .mdf or .ldf files, but the insert into the local...
December 31, 2003 at 5:59 am
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...
December 23, 2003 at 5:13 am
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...
December 16, 2003 at 6:56 am
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...
December 16, 2003 at 6:17 am
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...
December 5, 2003 at 4:44 am
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...
December 4, 2003 at 7:30 am
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...
October 24, 2003 at 4:30 am
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...
October 24, 2003 at 4:11 am
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...
October 16, 2003 at 3:41 am
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