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  • RE: Just Deleting data will reclaim space??

    Deleting data will cause the backup size to decrease but the file sizes of the .mdf files will not. However, you will fragment the data within the tables you...

  • RE: Large system coming, looking for advice of how to maintain, over 2TB.

    Michael Valentine Jones (1/15/2013)


    Markus (1/15/2013)


    Interesting thoughts, thanks.

    Has anyone done any comparision to the SQL2008R2 backups with compression as far as time taken to run and size of backup and compared...

  • RE: Large system coming, looking for advice of how to maintain, over 2TB.

    Interesting thoughts, thanks.

    Has anyone done any comparision to the SQL2008R2 backups with compression as far as time taken to run and size of backup and compared it to, say LiteSpeed?...

  • RE: Trunacte MSDB tables.

    I have a job that runs monthly that runs this:

    DECLARE @DeleteBeforeDate DateTime = (Select DATEADD(d,-30, GETDATE()))

    EXEC sysmail_delete_mailitems_sp @sent_before = @DeleteBeforeDate

    EXEC sysmail_delete_log_sp @logged_before = @DeleteBeforeDate

  • RE: Talking baseball

    I pulled up Frank Thomas's numbers and he only had 2,400 career hits... his best years were from '91 to 2000. He had some lost seasons with injuries. ...

  • RE: Talking baseball

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/9/2013)


    It's stupid. Bonds belongs, whether you like him or not, whether you think he did steriods. He was an amazing player in Pitt, and came...

  • RE: All Flash

    That is good to know Steve. We are about to purchase all new back end storage but I don't think any will be SSD's for any of our SQL...

  • RE: All Flash

    I have heard some horror stories a year or so ago about SSDs.... the one guy I know who works for MSFT as a SQL Server guru said, at...

  • RE: SQL 2005 3 node cluster lift and shift with IP change

    bipan (1/3/2013)


    Hi SQL Experts,

    We have a activity coming up in our project where sql server 2005 three node cluster will be lifted and shifted to new Data center.In new DC...

  • RE: Talking baseball

    Cubs Sign Edwin Jackson

    By Ben Nicholson-Smith [January 2 at 11:55am CST]

    The Cubs have officially signed Edwin Jackson, the team announced. It's a four-year contract worth $52MM, and it does not...

  • RE: Applying Patches

    stillconfused (12/20/2012)


    Hi ,

    I have to apply patches on SQL server in cluster ACTIVE/ACTIVE.

    On 2008R2 (RTM) need to apply SP2

    On 2008 SP2 need to apply SP3

    On 2008 SP1 need to...

  • RE: SQL Server Performance Problems

    The issue of I/Os taking longer than 15 seconds to complete is a very difficult thing to trace down. I had a case open with Microsoft on this issue...

  • RE: Talking baseball

    Ray K (12/19/2012)


    Nice little writeup on Don Mattingly, who was my favorite player when I was in high school, regarding his Cooperstown chances . . .

    If you didn't see him...

  • RE: Talking baseball

    That is if RA Dickey can come close...

  • RE: Talking baseball

    Jan Van der Eecken (12/17/2012)


    How do the MBL teams manage to play more than 95 games in a season? We down here (fourth league) play a measle 16 of them,...

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