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  • RE: Transaction log same size as database

    the following will forcefully shrink the logfile, set recovery model to FULL first

    --Forcefully Reducing the Size of the SQL Server Log File

    --(These instructions are rooted in SQL Server 7, but...

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  • RE: Drop users owning views

    Waseem Jaleel (8/28/2008)


    Yes I need to, but not all the users. I need to keep 5 users , and remove the rest. To drop these users, I need to first...

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  • RE: Transaction log same size as database

    yes, that is correct. The first 70% of the log is unused, the active portion (status of 2) would prevent the log from shrinking to a realistic size. What is...

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  • RE: Drop users owning views

    your original post above indicates you need to drop users who own views??

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  • RE: Transaction log same size as database

    ang

    what is the output of the following query run against your database?

    DBCC LOGINFO

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  • RE: Drop users owning views

    why not change all the view ownerships using sp_changeobjectowner,

    once done then drop the users 😎

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  • RE: Space on Server

    if you want to find disk space used on a server you could try a WMI query to get the info required.

    Alternatively try BGInfo utility from sysinternals

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  • RE: Best Practice for backups - include master, model, etc. db's?

    ss1011 (8/28/2008)


    we would basically drop in the two files after stopping the service.

    its not quite as simple as that

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  • RE: clustering in mssql 2k5

    do you mean

    active\active

    or

    active\passive

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  • RE: Data file will not shrink

    Imke Cronje (8/28/2008)


    File ID 4 of database ID 5 cannot be shrunk as it is either being shrunk by another process or is empty.

    yes and this message is fairly descriptive,...

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  • RE: Data file will not shrink

    my guess is 1 of the filegroups is already empty.

    check your filegroups to see which are in use!

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  • RE: Add a user to Domain Group

    to clarify on Karl's point further

    create a domain local security group in AD which is assigned to the resource (i.e. add to sql server security as a login).

    Then create a...

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  • RE: Data file will not shrink

    how many files\filegroups does the database consist of?

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  • RE: Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Backward compatibility -- Installation failed.

    Adam Bean (8/27/2008)


    Weird ... I'm a local admin ... I just got done installing 2k5 standard and SP2 ... SP2 went fine, except for this one piece.

    what OS is the...

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  • RE: DBCC CHECKDB - consistency errors (8992)

    select from sys.objects where the object_id

    what does it return for this?

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