Ed Wagner (12/13/2013)

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jasona.work (12/13/2013)

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OK, where did the year go?

I mean seriously, 12 days until X-Mas? It feels like it was only a couple weeks ago I was starting this...

OK, where did the year go?

I mean seriously, 12 days until X-Mas? It feels like it was only a couple weeks ago I was starting this job and planning...

Oddjob

Hey! The Oracle on Windows wasn't *my* choice, I just inherited it! As it is, I'm anxiously awaiting the day they *finally* get an Oracle certified DBA in,...

Gotta love Oracle...

If a node in a RAC cluster loses communication with the cluster for a minute or two, it gets evicted. So far, so good. Except the...

Ed,

On #1, absolutely! This is why there's a QA environment as well. I've actually been developing the code against the QA DB / table.

On #2, I'd forgotten about...

Probably the easiest way is to pull up the properties of the Job and check there. If you want to grab it via T-SQL, I've been using the code...

Thankfully my boss has been involved from nearly the start and knows what's been...

Greg, thanks for the suggestion, thankfully the method of "upgrading" here is to deploy a new server, clean-loaded with the new OS. I think what's potentially going on is...

Jeffrey Williams 3188 (11/26/2013)

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If you don't specify one of the options to fix corruption - CHKDSK runs in read only mode. As far as I know, this would not...

/rant mode on

Frickin' bloody pain in the tuckus idiotic mindless rules drones! Gotta go in early tomorrow because it's entirely possible a SQL server and a couple Oracle servers...

Gotta love situations like this...

Please install this program to make it easier for us to make your server (OS) more secure that requires this OS feature you've never needed before...

So reading yet another "how do I shrink / truncate my log files without running log backups" topic, I had (what seemed to be) an incredible idea!

Why not ask MS...

My understanding (and I thought I'd posted a similar question, but can't find it) is that you will not be able to restore the Copy Only backup, then the last...

Ed Wagner (11/8/2013)

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jasona.work (11/8/2013)

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So, put up gutter guard over the week to keep the back gutters on the house from filling with leaves, still need to get some to finish...