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  • RE: LOG file NOT shrinking

    although you ran a log backup there could be an active transaction occupying the end of the log file

    run

    dbcc opentran to check for open transactions

    then

    dbcc loginfo

    a status of 2...

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  • RE: DR Strategy with virtual machines?

    Ninja's_RGR'us (11/15/2008)


    Any recommended products from your experience?

    personally you cant beat VMWare VI3. There are a number of players in this arena now, but remember VMWare have a 10 year +...

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  • RE: DR Strategy with virtual machines?

    you need to research and decide on a virtualisation product and storage method first then build from there as the hypervisor and storage mediums form the foundation of the systems

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  • RE: SQL Sever Disaster Recovery idea

    Andrew Peterson (11/5/2008)


    The simple approach is to drop and restore the logins with the sid as part of the create login command.

    why not just script off the logins from the...

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  • RE: OS Disk Defrag

    definitely shutdown SQL server instances.

    make sure you have a full backup of the data files before defrag.

    Rebuild all your indexes after the defrag

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  • RE: DR Strategy with virtual machines?

    Hi

    the first question i need to ask you is

    what platform are you using for virtualisation?

    We currently use VMWare VI3 comprising of 10 ESX 3.5 hosts

    Dont get ESX server confused...

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  • RE: Multiple Ports

    stacked IP addresses are another way to have SQL listen on multiple IP's and ports

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  • RE: Why Shrink DB is bad?

    Steve Jones - Editor (11/12/2008)


    You can't, but if it's a daily load, why do you care? The space will get reused tomorrow.

    that's a very valid point

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  • RE: Looking for the recommended maximum number of DBs per instance

    rbarryyoung (11/12/2008)


    3GB does not sound like anywhere near enough memory for 1000 databases.

    unless of course they're all copies of Northwind and Pubs 😀

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  • RE: SQL CLR taking up all the VAS memory area ! Any solution

    Dean Jones (11/12/2008)


    when enabled and doenst really solve the issue of SQL CLR taking up the whole VAS memory area.

    that's not what AWE is for. AWE is so that each...

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  • RE: Looking for the recommended maximum number of DBs per instance

    thats more like it although essentially with node 5 inactive you could argue you still have active\passive clustering 😉

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  • RE: Transaction log filling up - transactional replication issue

    GilaMonster (11/12/2008)


    indexes were been rebuilt sunday evening. Those are logged operations and the log reader has to read through them.

    not logged under simple or bulk logged recovery models 😉

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  • RE: Looking for the recommended maximum number of DBs per instance

    mtassin (11/12/2008)


    Well presently it's a 4 node all active cluster with 3 GB of Ram given to each SQL instance.

    if the cluster has only 2 instances then 4...

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  • RE: SQL CLR taking up all the VAS memory area ! Any solution

    if you have 4GB RAM or over you need to enable AWE for each instance. What version OS do you use and what version SQL server. You should also configure...

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  • RE: Why Shrink DB is bad?

    Mike Levan (11/12/2008)


    Many DBa's say that shrinking is a bad idea,

    in a word "fragmentation"

    Mike Levan (11/12/2008)


    but that is what we do to gain disk space every time.

    i hope not,...

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