Does your stored procedure produce a file?

You could schedule a SQLCMD job that pipes output to a file, or a BCP job that pulls out data in a query.

The job...

Expanding volumes meaning adding new space or moving the volume to a large underlying disk structure?

If it's just expanding space, it shouldn't touch existing files and you ought to be...

Thanks, everyone for the kind words and thoughts.

there is a a white paper that talks about performance of Filestream v in database storage. Not completely applicable, but it basically says files < 256kb perform better from the...

Make sure you set max memory for all instances in there and leave 2GB for the OS. Watch the OS for paging too much (page file activity), as that can...

I tend to agree with Gail. The database is often a single point of failure, and the bottleneck, and contains all the data, which is often more important than any...

Optimize the database is so general. Looking at files and filegroups isn't the way to improve performance for most systems. Look at indexing and queries first. As Gail mentioned, without...

There is no "normally" for a hard disk crash.

What was on the disk that crashed, and what is on other disks on that particular machine? If everything was on one...

I think you are confusing concepts. The mdf holds to actual data. The ldf holds the transactions that have altered the mdf.

The diff backup holds all pages changed since the...

LutzM (4/23/2011)

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Did you folks notice that the "Add to briefcase" button is now available for forum posts, too?

THANK YOU STEVE!!!

Makes SSC even more convenient...

I tend to go the other way. I think I'd look to grant the CREATE VIEW to a role and add someone to that. I dislike DENY permissions as they...

All the smartphone stuff and email has my mind decaying. I don't remember a lot of numbers anymore, but a few seem to standout for strange reasons. I rarely use...

I'm not sure what you are asking here. What is a "condition" by your thinking and what relation does that have for files or filegroups?

Also, please don't write in large...

Re: xp_cmdshell. It's not so much that people are brainwashed as it's an open-ended shell, which can be a security risk. You can minimize it, and perhaps mitigate any major...

Interesting thoughts.

I think SSIS is useful, but it has a high bar of effort to get things done. The "code reuse" comes from cut/pasting, from what I've seen, into a...