There are definitely times to truncate and shrink the log, but these shouldn't be the first things you do, and you should understand the implications of doing so. Recommending these,...

Are you setting up log shipping on the primary server or secondary server when you do this?

Can you avoid a backup device and just back up to disk?

It's an interesting to see if this helps anyone. I've worked in places where we had up to 4 Exchange people and 2 Sharepoint, but that was early on in...

You might try here as well:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/61373/

Event logs are usually done with some third party product outside of SQL. I've used What's Up before to do this.

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Very nice. I would have cased it as well, but a nice solution, Gail.

Before I get any complaints, I approved this posting.

If you're interested in trying out the product, please email the poster above.

Does anything show in the SQL Server error log?

One interesting thing Andy and I talked about years ago when he had similar issues is that people can be successful in their job, and show years of experience managing...

Or set up a trust for the logins. This is more of a security issue that's the same as moving a file server to a new domain. Users need access...

Just for that, look for UVA wear tomorrow!

You can purchase incidents, which used to be US$250. That's a pretty good bargain.

If you have TechNet or MSDN subsriptions they typically come with a few incidents you can use....

Daniel,

not really sure. Just thought it would be fun. The set does move around sometimes here at the ranch, so sometimes those can be fun. Plus no bloopers without video!...

RAID 10 or RAID 01, not 50, would be my recommendation.

Let's hope so!