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  • RE: installation location for mdf, ldf, backup files

    RogueBlackSheep (2/14/2011)


    Found letting the system admin do OS drive system state backup then

    if all your system databases are on 1 drive do a system state backup

    using acronis.

    If you do this,...

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  • RE: An In-Depth Examination of Red Gate SQL Monitor

    thanks

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  • RE: An In-Depth Examination of Red Gate SQL Monitor

    well if you are pointing at physical server names you still need to know which node is supporting which instances or you might wonder why CPU usage just fell through...

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  • RE: An In-Depth Examination of Red Gate SQL Monitor

    does it focus down on individual queries as the cause of high resource usage, show query plans, suggest possible improvements?

    You say servers must be defined by physical name which is...

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  • RE: dbcc checkdb

    PHYSICAL_ONLY has its uses with a VLDB or a shortage of time, but should not be used on Every run of checkdb.

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  • RE: Database monitor tool

    Grant Fritchey (2/13/2011)


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    SCOM from MS is good, and certainly enterprise ready. You can get Management Packs that do most of what you're asking about right out of the box. But,...

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  • RE: installation location for mdf, ldf, backup files

    Grant Fritchey (2/13/2011)


    I'd like to repeat exactly what George said...

    😀

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  • RE: installation location for mdf, ldf, backup files

    By all means use something like DPM (note: not personally familiar with this tool) to copy the .bak files off to tape once you have created them on disk using...

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  • RE: Database monitor tool

    Anna_SQL (2/12/2011)


    For backup failure or job status for many servers, what tool should we use instead to check one by one?

    You should monitor these proactively by exception, by which I...

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  • RE: Database monitor tool

    Busy tonight Anna? 🙂

    Monitoring for what? Performance? Errors? Threshold Breaches? Job failures, Backup failures?

    100+ servers is enterprise level so for everything except performance I would go for microsofts own offering...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (2/12/2011)


    george sibbald (2/12/2011)


    I have probably done it myself without realising it in the distant past, most likely to Gail 🙂

    Nah, you and I tend to post within seconds of...

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  • RE: dbcc checkdb

    Anna, to repeat verbatim what Gail just said (private joke :-)), and it is probably covered in her webcast, but for me how long you retain your backups on disk...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (2/12/2011)[hrI could locate a couple repeat offenders, but it's not worth the energy right now.

    I can think of one who did very well out of it............

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Tom.Thomson (2/12/2011)


    george sibbald (2/12/2011)


    And why do people post a reply thats almost a verbatim copy of a previous post? Being proved wrong I can just about take (with embarrasement) but...

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  • RE: installation location for mdf, ldf, backup files

    unless i need compression or encryption native utilities all the way. Native backup works extremely well and is a no cost option, so only use a third party tool if...

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