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  • RE: Installing a clustered SQL 2012 instance is extremely slow

    All I can say is on a busy server any SQL install, but especially a cluster install, can take a long time.

    The SQL cluster install process does a lot of...

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  • RE: Sql Installation Configuration file

    The SQL Server install will always add about 3.5GB of files to the system drive. Most of these go into the GAC, which can only exist on the system...

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  • RE: Terrifyingly Accurate Technology Predictions for 2014

    End users will continue to do whatever they’d already decided before they saw the numbers.

    Undoubtedly the most accurate prediction of the lot!

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  • RE: Rebuilding Indexes very often is good?

    The main thing that slows down index-related performance is fragmentation. You should do some research around this issue to understand more about fragmentation and what an index rebuild does.

    The...

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  • RE: Installation

    The main benefit of doing an unattended installation is you can guarantee repeatability.

    It is too easy with a manual install to forget to select a given option or...

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  • RE: Installation

    There are a few tools that can help with unattended installs.

    You have the basic config file edit that comes with SQL Server, and you can wrap this up in a...

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  • RE: SQL Server Express Does Not Provide A Way to Setup Maintenance Plans

    If you are setting up a lot of SQL Express instances it may be worth looking at SQL FineBuild.

    The latest 3.2.0 release detects if Express Edition is being installed and...

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  • RE: installing sql on multinode cluster

    My preferred approach is to install SQL Server on each node separately.

    It is possible to run the SQL install and get it to install the database engine and...

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  • RE: BuiltinAdministrator in sql server 2005

    By default the Domain Admins group is part of the local Administrators group. This is the normal security model and you should not change this unless you have an...

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  • RE: SSIS subsystem failed to load

    In your position I would also not want to re-install SQL Server.

    I would want to reformat the system drive and re-install Windows.

    Removing and re-installing .Net is a bit like doing...

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  • RE: What role do you need to install security updates?

    If you start talking about SQL Server Service Packs, Cumulative Updates and Hotfixes, then you need authorities in both Windows and SQL Server. This also applies to Security Updates...

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  • RE: The clocks on the client and server machines are skewed

    Your organisation should have a Group Policy Object (GPO) in place to force correct clock synchronisation and frequency of synchronisation. This is something you can raise with your Windows...

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  • RE: Starting one named SQL Server service stops/crashes another

    The most obvious cause is that both instances are sharing a resource that should not be shared. The advice about using File Monitor and Process Monitor to help detect...

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  • RE: Sell old SQL 2005 discs and CAL

    Elliott has a good point. Regardless of the 'expiry date' on your current license, it is always worth putting some pressure on Microsoft, via your license reseller, to get...

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  • RE: Sell old SQL 2005 discs and CAL

    This might depend on the legal jurisdiction that currently applies in the country where the licences were purchased.

    Within the EU, my understanding is that if you have purchased a perpetual...

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