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  • RE: SQL Server, SANs and Virtualisation

    its worth noting if you licence the cpus for Enterprise edition of SQL server at the host level, it will cover you for unlimited sql server cpu licences on any...

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  • RE: Best method to migrate to new DB server

    unless your using Redgate or Litespeed, you have have to backup the database which can take a while depending on the size. You then have to copy that file across...

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  • RE: Best method to migrate to new DB server

    i would detach then re attach. Backup and restore remember that if you backup the database and restore, if any transactions get made against the old database then you'll need...

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  • RE: SQL Server, SANs and Virtualisation

    homebrew01 (1/10/2009)


    Perry Whittle (1/10/2009)


    homebrew01 (1/10/2009)


    Our plan is to take our 2 heaviest hit SQL servers and put them onto their own physical machines running VM. They will have the VM...

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  • RE: SQL Server, SANs and Virtualisation

    homebrew01 (1/10/2009)


    Our plan is to take our 2 heaviest hit SQL servers and put them onto their own physical machines running VM. They will have the VM overhead, but not...

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  • RE: RAID 1 vs. RAID 10

    colin Leversuch-Roberts (1/9/2009)


    On one san I have aligned partitions with 64kb block size, 128kb stripe, raid 10 dedicated spindles; I also have some 4kb block size non aligned partitions also...

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  • RE: Create database using Backup file

    click in the combo box and type a new database name 😉

    if you right click at the "databases" node of the tree view the combo box should be empty when...

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  • RE: SQL Server, SANs and Virtualisation

    SQLBOT (1/8/2009)


    Virtualization creates a safe sandbox environment for sa, but does add the overhead of providing a memory and disk space for the OS.

    the only caveat here is unless the...

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  • RE: SQL Server, SANs and Virtualisation

    John

    cant find the link at present, it detailed the NTFS cluster size and disk alignment within the windows OS. MS indicated that changing default cluster sizes,etc didnt necessarily boost performance.

    I've...

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  • RE: SQL Server, SANs and Virtualisation

    Wow, some great responses here. Did I open a can of worms? I appreciate all the feedback both negative and positive. This was only ever meant to be a "quick...

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  • RE: Cumulative update 10 for sql server 2005 EE x64

    option 2 should include the client

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  • RE: Transaction Log file size running away

    ALZDBA (1/7/2009)


    Still the log data is needed in case sqlserver crashes of in case of power failure of the server only to be able to restore the database into a...

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  • RE: Transaction Log file size running away

    ALZDBA (1/7/2009)


    Truncation usually occurs after each checkpoint but can be delayed under some conditions

    this is the key here, it should and generally does but there can be instances when it...

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  • RE: Transaction Log file size running away

    BOL sql2005 Dec2008 is the version

    as i understood it, recovery interval option will make regular log truncations by issuing checkpoint, but in severe cases where transactions over run the checkpoint...

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  • RE: Transaction log backup failed message

    Perry Whittle (1/6/2009)


    can you post details of the job steps?

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