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  • RE: What's a strong password .. really ?

    While all these accounts are good for user passwords, you may want to consider a truly random and long password for service accounts and 'sa'. Anytime we install a...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Rebuild/Reorganize index script

    Krishna Potlakayala (5/19/2009)


    Gaby Abed (5/19/2009)


    RPSql (5/16/2009)


    -if percent fragmentation value is less then 5% then we will not run rebuild/reorg index against that index.

    -if percent fragmentation value is between 5% to...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: How Can I stop SQL Server Service from a job??

    Here's a great link on what not to do with trans log backups.

    To summarize it:

    1. Don't break the backup chain with NO_LOG/TRUNCATE_ONLY.

    2. If you really must, immediately do a full...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Rebuild/Reorganize index script

    RPSql (5/16/2009)


    -if percent fragmentation value is less then 5% then we will not run rebuild/reorg index against that index.

    -if percent fragmentation value is between 5% to 30% then we will...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (5/15/2009)


    GSquared (5/15/2009)


    Gail: Check out the second story on this page[/url]. You'll get a chuckle out of it.

    Hehe. That's not an uncommon comment. I showed someone a photo...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Gaby Abed (5/14/2009)


    Wow! At ten posts per page, mine would be Four Thousand, Four Hundred, and Forty-Two! Woohoo!

    Make it: Four Thousand, Four Hundred, and Forty-Four!...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Wow! At ten posts per page, mine would be Four Thousand, Four Hundred, and Forty-Two! Woohoo!

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: A very basic question... what to do..

    Sam Shiell (5/11/2009)


    Woa there guys, you seem to be stampeding off in your own direction.

    Yes, a questionable Management decision has left us at short notice without a DBA. As the...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: SP3

    Meredith Ryan (1/21/2009)


    I left sql running on each node and no, it didn't pick up the second node when I did the install. Reboot was required for each node.

    In...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: A very basic question... what to do..

    Sam Shiell (5/8/2009)


    Hi

    Interesting point. However if I don't do the dba stuff it doesn't get done, and if anything goes "bang" then we're dead.

    My company is the registering authority...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Double join with with sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats and sys.schemas, taking a long time

    Samuel Vella (5/14/2009)


    Nothing wrong with your query

    the problem is with

    sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL)

    Which is always going to take a long time to run

    I guess that's the nature of...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (5/13/2009)


    All good stuff about the laptops folks. Thanks. I'll let you know what I end up with.

    Jeff, one more thing about laptops with regards to 32...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: The server principal "domain\sqlman" is not able to access the database "test_DBA" under the current security context

    Ken_R_Vickers (5/12/2009)


    If you have SQL Server 2008 (100) Web Edition then in sp_add_jobstep do not supply @database_user_name or in the GUI supply a run as user as this will result...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jack Corbett (5/13/2009)


    Luke L (5/13/2009)


    I've always had decent luck with Dell laptops. they just seem to consistently beat out IBM And HP on price for the same hardware. ...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Bob Hovious (5/12/2009)


    I'm inspired!! Imagine a banjo....

    Ohhhhhhhhhhhh

    I call up Engineering... holler "Gimme warp three"

    I got a half a billion Klingons all as pissed as they can be

    And the...

    Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

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