Ed Wagner (3/3/2014)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/3/2014)

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I am. Might be slightly longer...

Try this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/repltalk/archive/2010/11/17/how-to-cleanup-replication-bits.aspx

Yes, replication may be the rest for log growth. If replication was set up, and you have publications in this database, and replication was just let go, with subscribers turned...

I am. Might be slightly longer in real time as I might interrupt...

You need to remove replication from this database. If you don't have replication running, the log can't clear.

Thanks, after about 3-4 weeks, I'll bump this for a reminder

Going to submit to SQLBits. Gonna be a busy summer, it looks like.

If you're trying to save money on licensing, I don't believe you an upgrade. However you can purchase 2012 Standard and "migrate" to this version.

Read through Gail's article. We can't see your...

You could use Powershell here. A job that calls this script and outputs to a filename based on the date.

There's a rename script here: http://ss64.com/ps/syntax-stampme.html

Here's a text file export:...

One big thing would be to move to a stable x64 platform. That was an add-on in SQL 2000, but in SQL2K8 you can easily use more memory, which should...

Datagod-309892 (3/3/2014)

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I went to Amazon's first big AWS conference with a client. We attended a session included a discussion on Netflix's chaos monkey. My client was so impressed...

Backup/restore for me as well.

I might script this as a daily process that moves the latest backup from production to test, but doesn't necessarily restore it. This would make it...

I haven't typically seen connection issues taking many resources in SQL2K5+ instances. In SQL 7, it could be an issue, but usually in the 1000s of connections.

Does the app have...

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