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  • RE: The Copy Cat Poll

    Well, I'm pretty sure ours is full of extra junk. 🙂 tons of auditing and audits of the auditing... goes on and on. It's a good thing disk...

  • RE: The Copy Cat Poll

    Main Production DB is around 3 TB, current growth rate is roughly 1 TB / year.

    Total 7 copies.

    We keep 5 copies online (prod, qas, dev, train, sandbox), a SAN-level mirror,...

  • RE: SQL Server Compression Ratio

    SELECT 1-(compressed_backup_size/backup_size) FROM msdb..backupset

  • RE: Netapp SnapManager for SQL

    Once the configuration wizard is run and SMSQL knows where all your datafiles, filegroups, etc are distributed on whatever volume they're on, I believe SMSQL will stop all IO for...

  • RE: Netapp SnapManager for SQL

    We've been using this for about a year, and I think we have more luck with the product. We're using it for backup/restores naturally, but also take advantage of...

  • RE: Logshipping

    It seems at first that this would be counter-productive, it could be log-shipped to separate disk, yes? You'd still have some shared resources (uh, the instance), but maybe it's...

  • RE: Max Memory

    Our biggest are a couple SAP BW systems (Production, Quality). With 64 GB each.

  • RE: Visual Studio Code Names

    Funny Stuff!

  • RE: SQL Server 2008 Build List

    Much appreciated Steve!

  • RE: Introduction to Indexes: Part 3 – The nonclustered index

    Awesome, Gail, thanks a ton.

    Do you have the same screenshot for the last two query plans? They both look exactly the same and say they're query 1. But...

  • RE: Shrinking Databases

    SanDroid (12/10/2010)


    GilaMonster (12/10/2010)


    If what you're trying to do is clean up too many VLFs, then you do (once and only once) want to shrink to 0 and then grow to...

  • RE: Shrinking Databases

    GilaMonster (12/10/2010)


    Log files don't have indexes, they don't have pages that can get shuffled around, they don't have fragmentation. The architecture of the log file is quite different from the...

  • RE: Shrinking Databases

    SanDroid (12/10/2010)


    pjdiller (12/10/2010)


    SanDroid (12/10/2010)


    pjdiller (12/10/2010)


    Yes? I didn't say it'll throw an error, just that it's ignored. It's the same as running

    DBCC SHRINKFILE (N'my DB logfile' , 0)

    Ultimately, my question is...

  • RE: Shrinking Databases

    SanDroid (12/10/2010)


    pjdiller (12/10/2010)


    Yes? I didn't say it'll throw an error, just that it's ignored. It's the same as running

    DBCC SHRINKFILE (N'my DB logfile' , 0)

    Ultimately, my question is whether that...

  • RE: Shrinking Databases

    Yes? I didn't say it'll throw an error, just that it's ignored. It's the same as running

    DBCC SHRINKFILE (N'my DB logfile' , 0)

    Ultimately, my question is whether that is evil.

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