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  • RE: Tlog is full

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Transaction+Log/72488/

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Using IDENTITY or handling it your own?

    If you go your own route, be aware there are many ways to get it wrong and very few ways to get it right. Wrong methods will result in either...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Update the column included in Combined Unique Index

    Update as in change the value? If so a straightforward UPDATE statement will work. If not, I'm confused as to what you're asking

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: World's most qualified IT specialist?

    [Jim].[dba].[Murphy] (4/6/2011)


    You studied straight from the BOL as your primary textbook?! Ha! That's a reference, not an instruction guide.

    i got the list of skills covered from the...

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: World's most qualified IT specialist?

    Lol.

    Personally i studied out of Books Online, but that's not likely to suit most people. The training guides are usually adequate, if not necessarily complete.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (4/6/2011)


    Star Trek (the Original)

    My mother loves both that and Thunderbirds.

    Gail Shaw
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  • RE: Log file grows to hard (from mirrored database)

    C.K.Shaiju (4/6/2011)


    Gail/Ali, Is there any way to restore the data from Mirror to Primary if something happened to primary data?

    The mirror is exactly that. A complete mirror image of the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Log file grows to hard (from mirrored database)

    Rhox (4/6/2011)


    That was my question too when I started.

    Only answer I got: that was decided to be the most usefull.

    And it's not my decision 🙁

    I think the photo's are saved...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Log file grows to hard (from mirrored database)

    Sure, if you're completely happy with not being able to recover data if it is deleted.

    Seriously, what happens if someone drops the table that stores those photos? Or accidentally...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Log file grows to hard (from mirrored database)

    Rhox (4/6/2011)


    Mirroring was good for business. Backups were not necessary.

    So if someone dropped the table that stores those photos, business would be happy with the complete loss of all the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Log file grows to hard (from mirrored database)

    Rhox (4/6/2011)


    No we are not taking any backups (our 'backup' is the mirrored db)...

    Mirroring is NOT a backup. It's a high-availability solution.

    http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2009/05/08/high-availability-backups/

    Without backups how do you expect to fix a...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Database log file full, Mirroring , please help

    - Win. (4/6/2011)


    Planning to log backup and shrink the log file.

    Not going to help. You need to address the cause, which currently appears to be something in the mirroring.

    Restart the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Log file grows to hard (from mirrored database)

    Please read through these: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/64582/, http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Transaction+Log/72488/

    Shrinking the log is only for when it's grown beyond normal size due to some unusual operation. If it's normal operation, the log will just...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (4/5/2011)


    p.s. Pre-req reading apparently not done. Relevance of reply in question. Signing off for the night.

    It appears I misjudged. Pleasantly so.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • RE: Bug in dm_db_index_usage_stats?

    Alex Webber (4/6/2011)


    Thanks Gila... although you did not solve the problem directly, you pointed me down the path to finding the issue and now I feel a little stupid!

    Don't worry,...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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