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Use package variables to control execution against a test or live server child packages

You can't create a mirror between 2 nodes in the...

How many file groups do you use for the database?

Are you saying you can take all the files copied to th secondar and manually restore them successfully?

The error suggests you are missing a log backup somewhere

Most of them tend to be Linux orientated as the OS is free otherwise your NAS box would double in price.

Ultimately it's the BIOS on the RAID controller that handles the array(s), for vendor specific you may...

Partly because of the potential for a non NTFS file system, partly because it isn't the Windows box concern. Mostly because the remote file share is an entity outside of...

n00bDBA (5/4/2012)

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Hi all,

Just got a NAS share for SQL backups and i wanted to look at the file allocation and disk alignment for it. Doing the normal command lines...

dioscoredes (5/4/2012)

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Really enjoyed the article. Thanks. Great demo for my advanced training labs. Have done this in Oracle several times and is interesting to see how SQL server pages map...

Hi Michael, as the article mentions it's ideal for testing DBCC scripts against and also for practising dealing with a corrupt database.

It also gives you an idea of what the...

The command I believe you...

You're welcome

How many cluster nodes?

What quorum type?

Are you required to shut down the clustered SQL server instance or the cluster node(s)?

Whisper9999 (4/30/2012)

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Okay, I'm confused. Let's say someone tells me to shut down "clustering services" on an active/active 2005 cluster. Where do I find it and how do I...