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  • RE: The February 2009 Energy Update

    Retro-fitting insulation is an established practice in some parts of the world.

    In Switzerland, the government periodically raises the insulation requirements for offices and apartmement blocks. Compliance with the new...

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  • RE: Network alias for SQL Server .. bad idea???

    One potential issue with DNS aliases is getting them changed. At my old place we had servers in GB and US (with no clustering), and wanted the applications to...

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  • RE: Enable_AWE(For more memory)

    In your situation you will not get any extra benefits from applying Lock pages in memory.

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  • RE: Enable_AWE(For more memory)

    The counters show that you are successfully using AWE. What problem do you think you have?

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  • RE: Locks + memory space

    Each lock uses exactly the same amount of memory. I think Books Online has the details of how big this is.

    If you have 20 rows in a table locked,...

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  • RE: Sa account enabled/disabled

    Steve is right. The sa account can have any password without impaqcting on how SQL Server operates.

    Anyone who has sysadmin authority can change the password of the...

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  • RE: Surrogate clustered index to guarantee "sequentiality"

    If you Google Surrogate Key you will find lots of opinions, often in opposition to other opinions and sometimes (excessively) strongly held. The main viewpoints are 'Never', 'It depends',...

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  • RE: Multiple Instances with Different IP Addresses and Same Port Number in SQL Server

    The suggestion about using your firewall or network switch configuration is the best way to achieve this.

    One way to think of the TCP address and port numbers is to think...

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  • RE: Network alias for SQL Server .. bad idea???

    Persnally, I think having a level of indirection between your applications and the hardware is a good thing. All SQL Server machines should be given a DNS alias, and...

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  • RE: Dynamically creating sql server job using SP and kicking off the job

    If you download SQL Server FineBuild from Codeplex, you will find the spSetDBMaintenance stored procedure creates database backup jobs for all databases that do not already have a backup.

    The jobs...

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  • RE: Enable_AWE(For more memory)

    PAE is automatically enabled only if the server is

    using hot-add memory devices

    This does not prevent you from adding /PAE to BOOT.ini even if you have hot-swap memory. All...

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  • RE: defrag tool on MDF and LDF files?

    Google tells me that it is free with Sysinternals tools.

    It runs a NTFS defrag on named files only.

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  • RE: Error while connecting Named instances in sql 2008

    What TCP port have you specified for these instances. If you are trying to use the same port for both instances, you can conect only to the first instance...

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  • RE: Advise for complete Beginners

    Lots of good advice has already been given, but here is my bit...

    Try Google to find if there is a SQL Server user group near you. They often have sessions...

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  • RE: Copy SQL Server Objects from SQL 2000 to SQL 2008

    Are you trying to copy DTS packages or copy data?

    If you are copying DTS packages, IMHO the best option is to export and import using DTSBACKUP2000. This will keep...

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