Anoop,

I find it interesting that you say Actifio is basically faster in every way.  On my test server both the log backups and daily snaps are taking longer...

Thanks SQLRNNR!  Thanks exactly the kind of feedback I'm looking for.  I've been curious what the impact of index maintenance would have on  the dedup and how much storage savings...

Thanks.  We have contacts and support with Actifio.  I'm looking for feedback from those with experience using it in the real world.

Well...today assigned the port that doesn't work on the 2005 instance to a 2008 instance. I just connected from home(VPN) with NO port specified. This has me stumped....

Network engineers quotes when asked...

"As far as the VPN goes, there is no filtering going on in any way at any time"

"there are no firewalls between the VPN and the...

Jeffrey Williams-493691 (2/15/2011)

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If the instance is on a cluster, that instance should have its own resource group which has a defined IP address and name. The cluster handles redirecting...

Bump

CELKO (1/20/2011)

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Tables have no ordering by definition and you have to impose one by using the ORDER BY clause in an explicit or implicit cursor. In fact, you cannot guarantee...

Oops, I accidentally post this to 2005 area. Can a mod move this?

That what I can't figure out. It looks as if sp3 is in place, but that component of the update fails.

I did find that someone at some point created...

No.

I swithed the service account to the domain account SQL runs under and now it started. Not sure why it won't start under the built in network service. ...

I've thought of the import option, but I would think it would take more than a couple hours when it includes populate indexes as well. And the hold pk/fk...

Oh, absolutely I do. But mgr's seem to think the time of getting stuff delivered is more important than doing things right and and the quality of the work....

I was afraid this was going to be my only path. I don't know if it's worth it or if I should convince the server admin to change the...