Jack Corbett (1/18/2012)

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I assume I'm not the only one who sees no content (well really only the word "content") in the body of today's featured article Stairway to...

Eric M Russell (1/18/2012)

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However, in a corporate or government IT environment (100 - 10,000 employees) this is problematic, because help desk now has to support multiple operating systems. Also, it's...

I can understand this, but is it fair? Lots of industries are required...

Jack Corbett (1/18/2012)

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I have to agree with Gus' comments. I was required to have McAfee anti-performance installed which makes it about 3 times longer to...

milzs (1/18/2012)

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I have seven development PCs sitting here at my desk, including a "souped-up" one that cost over $5K. Add in a 21" monitor, a ScanSnap scanner, and a...

There...

I think we're close now 🙁

Jason is right here. I was asking for clarification to understand if you were talking logs or data.

You should never shrink data files as part of regular maintenance. Ever. It's...

OK, I'm confused.

The TRUNCATE ONLY is for the backup of the log, correct?

Do you have a 300GB data file, or database? Are you shrinking the data file somehow?...

yes

Have you tried something like this to be sure of the contents:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Miscellaneous/30852/

Are you sure the file is growing? Meaning have you detected auto grows, or monitored the actual file size?...

P-V, physical to virtual migration. Essentially snapshot the Windows OS as a point in time and recreate as a virtual machine. You can leave the physical, and bring up the...

I'd change the db owners to a new account, since it shouldn't affect anything if you make the change. Use "sa" or another real account.

For the other stuff, I...

Interesting link, but that talks more about the organization and benefits. This guy was having trouble understanding the concept of the entire machine being emulated. If they can't get that...

Is this account the owner of the databases or is it mapped to "sa"?

The installation shouldn't matter. It's the access and perhaps ownership of this account. The SID should stay...