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  • RE: Best File Allocation Unit Size

    I would not say huge but it is the MS recommendation and would help.

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  • RE: Best File Allocation Unit Size

    vivek (7/22/2009)


    Please excuse me if i may sound ignorant here but when you say "if you block size allocation drives" - do we actually have an option there? If so...

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  • RE: Best File Allocation Unit Size

    If you block size allocation for the drives, 64K for data files, 8K for log files, block aligned.

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  • RE: Standby Backing up

    I can confirm you cannot do that.

    a) you cannot backup a database in recovery mode

    b) even if you could the log restores would fail beacuse they would be missing...

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  • RE: Apply Service Pack 2 on SQL Server 2005

    apply by ensuring all connections to the databases are stopped, backup your databases, then run the installation file and follow instructions. The id you install with shoould ahve admin rights...

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  • RE: Apply Service Pack 2 on SQL Server 2005

    Service Pack 3 has been out for a while now, you would be better off going straight to that.

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  • RE: Raw Materials - Alternative Energy

    like it!

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  • RE: SQL 2000 server locking up

    Unfortunately if the SQL instance is unresponsive you will not be able to connect (as you have found out) and in SQL 2000 there is no way round this. About...

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  • RE: How to get last 5 days back date

    sad thing is I know I will never get the last 5 days back................:-)

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  • RE: SQL server agent history has yellow exclamation point icon

    this would be a multi step job and it is warning you one of the intermediate steps failed. expand the job history to see which one.

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  • RE: SQL 2000 server locking up

    what wait types do you see when this happens? This could point you in the direction of where the bottlleneck is.

    sounds ums scheduler related so would be a good idea...

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  • RE: Replication with Simple Revover Model

    Only the INactive part of the log is truncated, the active part, i.e transactions that are not commited yet or in the case of replication not passed to the distribution...

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  • RE: Need to Pull All SQL Server Configuration Parms Into a File

    there is a number of ways of varying complexity, linked server, opendatasource, powershell scripts.

    For this I think I would go for a .bat file running a number of osql commands,...

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  • RE: Need to Pull All SQL Server Configuration Parms Into a File

    to show server configuration

    exec sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1

    reconfigure

    exec sp_configure

    exec sp_configure 'show advanced options', 0

    reconfigure

    not sure what else they could want but you also send the latest errorlog and\or run...

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  • RE: Certification High School

    Raju Lalvani (7/20/2009)


    Most of the people take Certification exams because it makes their resume appear better.

    well obviously.

    They do not take it to increase their knowledge or hone their technical...

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