Dugi (1/10/2009)

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Jack Corbett (1/10/2009)

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I second everything that Jerry said. Anytime you are making changes to your SQL Server you should backup everything. Don't forget the resource database as...

Ow. that hurt. 🙂

cheers Jack (and...

excuse my ignorance, I'm a Brit, and I have seen references to 'VC guys' throughout this thread. Whats one of them?

well its one of the default performance counters in MOM, which raises a critical alert if it goes below 90% for more than 15 mins (by default) so I guess...

steve, out of interest, why would you choose 2008 at this point?

knausk (1/9/2009)

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The conference was 4 days long that year. On the first day I thought to myself, "Man, these Harvard guys think they run the world." By the forth day...

Paresh Prajapati (1/9/2009)

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Ed (1/9/2009)

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It does not matter what privileges you have when you are logged onto the server. That is not the account used during the restore process. ...

stricknyn (1/9/2009)

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Hi all thanks for your response. Just to add, when I mentioned the screen went out, its the graphics card. So using a projector or monitor won't...

you'll never be 100% sure, but I'll bet a restart of SQL service alone would have done, as this is enough to clear out all resources allocated by SQL.

Even nowadays,...

Madhu I would do some googling on disk counters in sysmon or perfmon if I was you. I have come across this message where the page file was heavily used...

you'll need to expand on this.

I guess you had a question, so you would be better off posting as a TOPIC rather than a POLL

If SQL is down on that laptop you can just copy the the files via CIFS as they will not be locked.

Else if you can connect to SQL on the...

peter, one gotcha in a clustered environment, run the SP from the node the instance is active on, and run it from a share the other node can see. good...

from your angle you wouldn't...