20GB, as Grant mentioned, isn't large. However if you are considering this to be a small system that is growing, I would split the table to a separate filegroup and...

There is no way to determine when the last time a table was accessed in terms of SELECT queries, and unless you are auditing somehow (even with a GETDATE() in...

Have you read this? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc917684.aspx

no, it is restoring and cannot be accessed. You can create a database snapshot from it, or you can get read only mode from log shipping, but not database mirroring.

rick-507511 (1/15/2011)

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MB, TB, whatever. The hours relate more to how much of your life you are willing to commit. I spent more hours managing a single server single...

The pros are cracking our systems and selling information!

We ought to have this discussion, and the best thing that can happen is better disclosure and more openness about how security...

If the sectors have not been overwritten, then someone could read the disks. Arguably not easy, but possible.

Excellent. Include some screenshots so people know where to find it and know they don't need a command window. find 2-3 useful things that SQLCMD allows that you can show.

The thing is, with Twitter and Facebook, you control who you watch. You might care what some people are doing, might not. However it's the same as people you meet...

It would almost seem to be some persmissions/security issue, but I would hesitate to "play" with the cluster. I'd call MS, let them work through it.

We would like to surface more statistics and data. I'm working on that. It's a resource thing, and this is relatively low priority, but thanks for the suggestions.

note that DUMP is an old keyword and likely to be removed at some point. BACKUP TRANSACTION is preferred

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186865%28v=SQL.100%29.aspx

Koen (da-zero) (1/17/2011)

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GilaMonster (1/17/2011)

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Was one of the things that contributed to me leaving the bank. The over-paid consultants from Big Named Consulting Company were considered (by upper management) to know...

I would call MS on this. It almost looks like something might be misconfigured on the cluster. Does this happen on both nodes?

Tend to agree with Gail. You'll have to test.

Depending on how many unique vales and the size of the table, you may or may not get better performance with the...