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  • RE: Installing SQL Server on a badly fragmented drive

    How does this sound for a defrag procedure?

    1. Boot any users who are on the system during its lowest usage window.

    2. Turn off SQL Server.

    3. Run the Windows Disk Defragmenter...

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  • RE: Performance Issues after upgrade to 2008

    Well I can report to the users here that the high cpu utilization was entirely due to not putting the new sql server directories into the McAfee Exclusion list. There...

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  • RE: Installing SQL Server on a badly fragmented drive

    Thanks Steve. Is there a stored procedure to use for defragmenting tables?

    Thanks!

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  • RE: SQL Server Compatibility mode

    Aha! How I did it was I remoted into the server and opened enterprise manager and ran the alter table statements there. Should I have run EM on my local...

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  • RE: Installing SQL Server on a badly fragmented drive

    Steve Jones - Editor (6/23/2010)


    Do you mean that the virtual drive is fragmented on the physical one or that inside the virtual drive it appears to be fragmented?

    Thanks Steve -...

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  • RE: Timeout Period

    Ok..that clears that up. We don't use that kind of set up so my settings were in vain.

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  • RE: SQL Server Compatibility mode

    It was still running today when I came in. I exited out and reran it and it completed in a heartbeat. Go figure. Maybe the low memory was an issue...

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  • RE: Timeout Period

    What effect does the Query Timeout setting in SQL Server 2008 have? Is it related in any way to client timeout periods or is this for the internal locks? Our...

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  • RE: Performance Issues after upgrade to 2008

    Thanks for that list MSzI! Our current build is 01.0.2531 so it appears then that there are several hotfixes that have come out since then. We have always waited until...

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  • RE: Performance Issues after upgrade to 2008

    Hi folks. Thanks for chiming in on this. I looked at the Event Viewer yesterday and there were a lot of McAffee errors. There have been no errors since excluding...

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  • RE: SQL Server Compatibility mode

    I have 31Gb database that I have just set compatibility mode from 2008 to 2000 by first etting to single user mode then running:

    ALTER DATABASE dbname SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL...

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  • RE: Performance Issues after upgrade to 2008

    It was an in place upgrade and we used the upgrade advisor. It didn't complain about much. We had 'DateInterval.Day' in some places that simply broke and we fixed those...

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  • RE: Is 'BACKUP TRANSACTION' valid syntax?

    I will change it to backup log this week. We're upgrading to 2008 on Saturday and that may break it.

    Thanks for the feedback!

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  • RE: USB Drive as Transaction Log location

    Thanks for all the feedback. I think I have enough information to make a good case for upgrading our database server. I'm just a developer with the company and don't...

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  • RE: USB Drive as Transaction Log location

    The drive being used is an Iomega LDHD-UP (Prestige). It is 1Tb in capacity. It uses 'Hi-Speed USB' to connect which has a 480Mbps speed and it has an 8Mb...

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