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  • RE: DR Strategy with virtual machines?

    Marios Philippopoulos (11/16/2008)


    I have heard that Microsoft does not officially support virtualized SQL Server installations.

    untrue as far as i am concerned. I had a call open recently with MS...

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  • RE: DR Strategy with virtual machines?

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


    Wow, amazing stuff, you guys should write an article about this!!!

    i have been tempted for some time 😉

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  • RE: How do I set up scripts to run daily?

    why not just run the scripts through a sql job, no need to use SSIS

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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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