Are you using the Configuration Manager to change accounts and set rights? You should be.

I would move to different physical drives, but I'd also do diagnostics. Depending on your situation, you could have firmware/filter drivers (as Gail mentioned) causing issues.

These are strange, hard to...

Corruption in the clustered index is likely a call to Microsoft. This is the data, and so you can't rebuild.

If I had this, I'd try to BCP out the data...

If the problem is still there, you have IO issues. It's not a SQL problem, but your hardware people are not running low enough level diagnostics, they don't know what...

Does this login have access to master? They have to be mapped to a user (or guest).

I might change it to a database that they have access in, say the...

Yep, should be treated like that. You can't handle it,...

They have offices all over. The requirement was...

paul.knibbs (3/7/2013)

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I think there's another possible reason to not want to work from home. Speaking personally, I like to keep home and work in their own separate compartments--I'll work from...

Todd Carrier (3/12/2013)

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I like your idea Steve.

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A database calling it's own backup? Just sounded like a terrible idea to me, for some of the same reasons stated...

I'm not sure Grant or I will be there, since we have other commitments. Sorry.

Something to think about. The development paradigm in Windows Azure can be different from AWS. In AWS you are essentially renting a VM with SQL Server on it for the...

It's an evolutionary change, but it's a substantial one. Look beyond what Win 8 does with the desktop, because so few apps take advantage of the interface. It's changing to...

roger.plowman (3/12/2013)

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I don't know if I'd want backup information in the database or not. On the one hand I could see it, and you're right, having information about the backup...

It looks like some of your first post dropped off.

In terms of IO, you still need good IO. There's no magic solution with virtualization. Multiple disks and multiple IO pathways...

Miles Neale (3/6/2013)

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Along this line anyone been reading about how Yahoo has changed things up? I guess the idea is to get back to the office everyday or get...