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  • RE: Increased Time to Complete Backups

    Shaira (7/10/2012)


    I have 28 DBs on SQL 2008. Four days ago my nightly full backups were taking on average about 3 hours, then suddenly they started taking 5+ hours...

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  • RE: Disk Alignment best practice - Help !!

    SQLQuest29 (7/11/2012)


    Thanks a lot Perry !!

    Very helpful.

    Out of curiosity, is there any way that the relation between the disk# and the drive (e.g c: ,d:) can be found meaning they...

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  • RE: Disk Alignment best practice - Help !!

    That statement is based on the example immediately preceeding it.

    Start from the heading Partition Alignment on page 25 and read through thoroughly. This is descriptive of the requirements

    EMC Symmetrix with...

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  • RE: Disk Alignment best practice - Help !!

    it's no problem

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  • RE: Disk Alignment best practice - Help !!

    SQLQuest29 (7/11/2012)


    64 KB is typically the minimum (and a common) valid starting partition offset for SQL Server -- This is where I am confused

    ah, ok let me see if...

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  • RE: Index Size is growing very large

    Jack Corbett (7/11/2012)


    An index's size is dependent upon the size of the columns and the number of rows in an index. For instance a one column index...

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  • RE: Index Size is growing very large

    bubby (7/11/2012)


    Could you please let me know how the index is related to the table, I mean if the table is used quite often, How the index size works,

    to help...

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  • RE: DBCC CheckDB Errors 8992, 8954, 8989

    lisa.randles (7/10/2012)


    Also, when I query sys.columns and sys.objects for object_id 1357963914 I do not get any records returned.

    Any information you have to offer would be greatly appreciated. TIA!

    No records...

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  • RE: Log shipping error

    jitendra.padhiyar (7/11/2012)


    Is there any query or any DBCC or any DMV check to find out which transaction log backup last restored?

    exec sp_help_log_shipping_secondary_database

    @secondary_database = 'yourdatabase'

    jitendra.padhiyar (7/11/2012)


    Result:

    Secondary_id=D737BE9C-2500-4B51-9CE1-B36E56846A4C

    Primary_server=JPTEST\SQLLOCAL

    Primary_database=AdventureWorksDW

    Backup_source_directory=\\192.10.10.1\Backup_Ls

    Backup_destination_directory=E:\Restore

    File_retention_period=30

    Copy_job_id=571602CF-1CCF-430C-LAKDJ345-AKDFK12

    Restore_job_id= C3B9AA9A-C3AD-A411-9477-D7654423

    Monitor_server=NULL

    Monitor_server_security_mode-Null

    Secondary_database=AdventureWorksDW

    Restore_delay=1

    Restore_all=1

    Restore_mode=1

    Disconnect_users=0

    block_size= -1

    buffer_count= -1

    max_transfer_size= -1

    restore_threshold=45

    threshold_alert=14421

    threshold_alert_enabled=1

    last_copied_file=E:\Restore\AdventureWorksDW_2012071017512.trn

    Last_copied_date= 2012-07-10...

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  • RE: Disk Alignment best practice - Help !!

    SQLQuest29 (7/11/2012)


    Thanks a lot Perry for the clarification !

    Still confused with http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd758814.aspx

    Valid Starting Partition Offsets

    Because versions of Windows earlier than and including Windows Server 2003 comply with the 63...

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  • RE: Copied files in log shipping not getting deleted.

    you're welcome

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  • RE: SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Install failed

    you'll be adding the node back to the current instance not creating a new one!

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  • RE: SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Install failed

    try just uninstalling sql server first

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  • RE: SQL Server ignoring maximum file size on transaction log

    MBR limits partitions to 2TB, where as GPT doesn't, it's a lot larger than that.

    The main restriction with MBR is the fact it will only support 4 partitions max, where...

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  • RE: SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Install failed

    I would uninstall\remove the node that's causing the issue and re install it

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