I agree with hundreds of disks it's unlikely you'll lose both of the mirrored pair, but for smaller installations 4-10 disks, it is a possibility. No idea on probabilities, but...

I haven't done this in awhile, but there really isn't any "acceptable number" of admins. It should be the people that need it and no one else. No extras.

The thing...

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Lowell is right. It's sockets, not cores. You'll get to use all your CPUs up to 4 CPUs, regardless of cores.

Agree with Colin, there's no good way to do this. If you have an idea of the queries being run, you could see how many of the SARG operators match...

That's funny. I wish I had a Dell contact to send this to

Rob,

Great question and I'd love to know the answer here as well. I'd call MS on this one and get them to give you a real answer. My suspicion is...

Might want to ping the Northern Virginia Users Group as well with this.

If this is a varchar col, this won't help. '' and ' ' are the same.

Can you give a sample of the before and after items in the table?

Both Peter...

You still need to separate the traffic on the network to get Log shipping to run over a second network. If you have a second link, is it network addressed...

You need to clarify what you mean. Your posts doesn't quite make sense. Do you mean a full database backup of the primary restored to the secondary?

If the timeouts are...

Can you also give us the memory settings and what is stable RAM And what is the level it increases to?

Any XPs installed as well?

The links should be fixed and my apologies to everyone. We've tightened security and I forgot .sql scripts will not download. They are renamed to .txt.

Joseph,

Good points, but the reality with RAID 1+0 isn't that you can lose half the drives. You may be able to, but not necessarily.

If you have drives 1, 2, 3...

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