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  • RE: SQL 2008 R2 Standard licensing for virtual environments

    Banks1850 (2/17/2012)


    my understanding was that you cannot apply a SQL 2008 R2 Standard license to the host level of a virtual environment, only to the guest level.

    Yes correct, my...

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  • RE: SQL 2008 R2 Standard licensing for virtual environments

    are you applying the licence at the VM level or the Hyper visor host level?

    For std edition it only makes sense to apply the licence at the VM level, in...

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  • RE: Truncate VS drop

    Truncate also resets any column seed values

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  • RE: Database Mirroring - set partner timeout 60

    fabricio_lima_es (2/17/2012)


    I was thinking that with the "timeout" option the failover would obligatory initiate after X seconds. In any situation.

    Thanks

    No it doesn't

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  • RE: database upgrade

    sqlfriends (2/16/2012)


    I have a database that is on sql server 2000 server.

    I use backup and restore it to a SQL server 2008 server.

    Is that the right way to do it?

    Or...

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  • RE: Database Mirroring - set partner timeout 60

    fabricio_lima_es (2/17/2012)


    I think I found the answer at this link:

    http://www.sqlmag.com/blog/sql-server-questions-answered-28/sql-server/why-isnt-the-mirroring-partner-timeout-working-137113

    I was right. This only work with a windows failure in diferent servers.

    Thanks for your time guys.

    with instances on the same...

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  • RE: Convert from stand-alone SQL instance to clustered on new hardware?

    don't move the databases, extract all required objects and import them to your new clustered instance.

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  • RE: Log Shipping for Many Large Databases

    Muralijv 51742 (2/16/2012)


    Hi Kevin

    Thanks for the update. Do you have suggestions to automate this process.

    Thanks in advance.

    Cheers

    Murali

    Not sure what you mean, log shipping is an automated process.

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  • RE: Backups not completing

    Declaring an Insensitive cursor should also work

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  • RE: Find storage including mount points Sql and windows utility

    Starting in SQL server 2008 R2 there is a dynamic management function called sys.dm_os_volume_stats which pulls mount point info per database\database file.

    I still prefer WMI though 😉

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  • RE: Find storage including mount points Sql and windows utility

    Personally i prefer to use WMI to get the volume info, it works for mounted and non mounted volumes so it's completely generic

    Roy Moore (2/16/2012)


    This script didn't work for me....

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  • RE: Backups not completing

    If you really must use a cursor then this would be a little more appropriate

    declare cursor_db INSENSITIVE cursor for

    select sdb.name from sys.databases sdb

    where state = 0 and snapshot_isolation_state = 0...

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  • RE: How to install SQL Server SP4 on a Cluster environment???

    deva_etc (10/19/2011)


    Also in SQL 2005, you have to perform the patch installation from the active node. In SQL 2008, you can patch from any node (rolling upgrade)

    Starting 2005 SP2 there...

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  • RE: SQL, VMs, and Backups... Oh my...

    LutzM (2/14/2012)


    The VM folks were unable to tell us how to definitely prevent VM snapshots from happening ("definitely" in terms of a technical solution and not a "we have a...

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  • RE: Log Shipping for Many Large Databases

    Muralijv 51742 (2/14/2012)


    I will try to restore the logs 4 times a day.

    Cheers

    Murali

    In that case log shipping would be perfect

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