A nice blog, in the spirit of Jeff: Killer I/O

Elliot,

That should work. Couple things to be aware of. If you have Enterprise edition, you should be able to restore one filegroup and get working while the next restores. IF...

Yep.

SELECT cntr_value, *

FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters

WHERE counter_name = 'transactions/sec'

AND OBJECT_NAME = 'SQLServer:Databases'

AND instance_name = 'AdventureWorks'

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187743%28v=SQL.100%29.aspx

I've done it, and I learned by digging in years ago into ASP and ASP.NET. Just getting a project going, and slowly learning how one thing learned, how it fit,...

New levels here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Forum83-1.aspx

Feel free to add comments, or make suggestions here.

Counters can get slightly screwy in VMs if the environment, or host, is busy. I have tended to look at a few types of counters for baselining. Batches/sec, CPU%, disk...

Because I made these during baseball season.

Hmmm, would you get a new level at 1433? Or before it? Do I change on 1434 or 1435 to something else?

I liked the Cowboy's idea of a separate database. I wouldn't use a trigger, since you could hang up a transaction, but I'd either use a Service Broker Q, which...

The log might not shrink, depending on where the active portion is. You can use this to help: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/30026/

I know you mentioned a space issue, but unless your files are...

Litespeed is not built into SQL Server.

Microsoft added backup compression to SQL Server 2008, but this is not Litespeed, SQL Backup, or some other tool. It's a simple set of...

What was funny is that my son pointed out that most football games are really 2-1 (10-7) or 4-2 (21-14). Not a ton of scoring, but the values just make...

Richard Gardner-291039 (6/10/2010)

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Football doesn't need a new name, it has one, and has had since it was invented, giving it a new one because you've hijacked it for handegg (or...

SQL Server can't work with files directly. How is the stored procedure being called? Is there some reason you can't use SSIS and then call a job to run that...

Doesn't have to be sports. It could be some significant number from math, science, history, etc.

My ring looks surprisingly like one that came out of a cardboard box of sweet, corn based, treats :w00t:

Dan, I agree with you on one part. If you put in...