It's been a long time since I've had a good week. We're short staffed and loosing more staff next week. We're getting issues faster than we can solve...

Thank you, Sean, this is great!

Oh, tough question, Rob. I've...

Interesting discussion. I'm not sure how to respond, because of all of the great feedback I've seen. I'd like to think that I'm a great developer (in the...

Why are we backing up to tape? Good question. I believe the answer is simple; because that's what we've always done. Really, that's the primary reason. ...

Yeah, it looks like it was the number of new .bak and .trn files. I just used Windows Explorer to check what was new in the last 3 days....

WOW, everybody, great feedback! I love this website/forum!

OK, here's what I've got. None of our databases are all that large. The smallest one is only 5.44 MB...

Thank you, Gail.

Gail, what do you mean by "one off shrink"? Is that sort of like watching the growth of the transaction log file, and if it gets big then shrink it?

OK, it definately looks like shrink the database files is not a good idea. I get that.

How about shrinking the transaction logs? Even the linked to article by...

Thank you for this.

Thank you, Jeff, for that handy SQL script. I've saved it. Right now I ran it on our test database server. The growth precentages (the last column...

I'm restricting myself to only the movies I've seen, which are also nominated for Best Picture in the 84th annual Academy Awards. I've seen The Artist, Hugo, The Help...

I admit to being one of those people who is intolerant of failure on my own part. It isn't a good trait, but there it is.

However, I want to...

What a nice post, Steve, thank you! And I echo it; I've gotten lots of help from this website and these forums over the years. And I learn...