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  • RE: Adding a new file to the database primary file group

    yes to both questions, try and do it at a quieter time ,though adding 1 GB should be pretty quick (depending on hardware)

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  • RE: Adding a new file to the database primary file group

    Dana, if you have more than one file in a filegroup you cannot control which SQL writes to,

    SQL writes to multiple files in a round-robin fashion on a percentage fill...

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  • RE: Scripting DTS packages and jobs for disaster recovery

    Ed vassies product finebuild contains scripts that will script out DTS packages and jobs for you nice and simply via SQL

    http://www.codeplex.com/SQLServerFineBuild

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  • RE: how to identify database file with most i/o

    thanks greg, having run the one off query I was thinking of adapting it to output to a table so I could order by most io or whatever.

    This will be...

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  • RE: how to identify database file with most i/o

    Greg Linwood (4/3/2008)


    fn_virtualfilestats() is definitely the tool for this job.

    Here's a script I wrote last year which makes using this TSQL system function easy..

    http://blogs.sqlserver.org.au/blogs/greg_linwood/archive/2006/03/15/59.aspx

    Greg, you have just made my day....

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  • RE: HELP!! Need to Restore SQL 2000 DB in SQL 2005

    Angela, for the education of others, can you post the eventual fix in this post as well

    glad you got there in the end

    cheers

    george:)

    the actual reason for the logon failure turned...

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  • RE: HELP!! Need to Restore SQL 2000 DB in SQL 2005

    Angela, if you were using ODBC to connect before to 2000, it should still work, presuming the server name was not changed when you rebuilt it.

    a number of other reasons...

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  • RE: HELP!! Need to Restore SQL 2000 DB in SQL 2005

    asizemore (3/31/2008)


    OK when I tried to restore to 2005 it gave as Master_2000 it have me an error, something about sys....something existed already. I installed a version of 2000...

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  • RE: HELP!! Need to Restore SQL 2000 DB in SQL 2005

    asizemore (3/31/2008)


    I'm sorry george sibbald, I think I may HAVE a .bak of the master file on my backup tape the night before the server crashed. What do I...

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  • RE: HELP!! Need to Restore SQL 2000 DB in SQL 2005

    SSMS isSQL Server Management Studio

    SO, you lost a SQL 2000 instance and have replaced it with a 2005 instance. You have a backup of your app database but not...

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  • RE: HELP!! Need to Restore SQL 2000 DB in SQL 2005

    asizemore (3/31/2008)


    I'm getting the error:

    [Microsoft][SQL native client][SQL server]Login failed for user 'LIMSUSA', LIMSPROD

    when I try to connect with my front end client.

    I can connect through SQL management studio fine.

    are you...

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  • RE: Database Mirroring Question

    create a snapshot of the mirrored database, then you'll have a point in time read only copy you can check.

    see database snapshots in BOL

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  • RE: HELP!! Need to Restore SQL 2000 DB in SQL 2005

    have you got a backup of the old master from 2000? Restore it into the 2005 instance as a database of a different name (ie master_2000) as if...

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  • RE: ORDER BY

    Shaun McGuile (3/31/2008)


    but george - 'database administration is all about deception'

    -Shaun Tzu's Art of DB Admin. 🙂

    LOL 😀

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  • RE: ORDER BY

    Logically everyone should have thought about it and picked the correct answer the 209 level 16 one as that is logically correct,

    We do not deserve the points for falling into...

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