You mean a SpinFusor?

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I believe (and thought I'd asked a similar question) that you can leave out the corrupted full backups, and simply restore from Full A, then all the TLog backups from...

IIRC, they're based off the number of posts you've made on the site and other things. I think if you answer the QOTD correctly, those also add to the...

So, this weekend I learned a valuable lesson (that I should've already known:) ALWAYS verify everything is working before calling it done...

I was loading OS updates on a SQL...

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On an unrelated note, so much fun working for government...

When said govm't seems heck-bent on going into shutdown, potentially leaving one payless for who knows how long...

It strikes me as somewhat amusing to see someone post a question, which is obviously not a "help me fix this" but is instead a "help me understand why this,"...

I...

margo.taylor (9/19/2013)

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I am new to the SQL world. My problem is that there are just too many choices. How do I know where to start? I have had no formal...

TravisDBA (9/19/2013)

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There is merit to what you say, but the hard cold reality today is most HR departments require the piece(s) of paper (college degrees, etc.) for technical positions. You...

Thanks for the suggestions, and I'm still working on this. I did come up with something to give a very quick-and-dirty overview of the tables / columns / datatypes...

Ron, that may do some good. One question on the report, does it only go back to the last time the SQL Server service was restarted? I'm presuming...

Oops. I was (partially) confusing server side traces with Profiler Traces...

With this particular trace and the rules, no. The goal behind it is if something needs to be investigated later, we're able to dig into the trace files.

Between the...

Where I work has similar requirements, and actually provides the script to create the trace. Downside is, they write the trace to disk and default it to 1GB files...