Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • GilaMonster (5/15/2009)


    Luke L (5/15/2009)


    Nope I was referring to the link Tom Brown posted. It seemed like he was trying to post a location and ended up putting that in instead...

    😀 Didn't even notice that.

    But slightly more picturesque

    I was checking GilaMonster's sig - vaguely familiar - thought it may have been from Battlestar - somehow it got into the Google location?

    I'll try again.

    http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=52.43613,-1.798496&spn=0.044948,0.066948&t=k&z=14

  • Back to the subject of questions...

    There must have been 8-10 questions on database corruption in the last week or two. Is it open season on corruptions all of a sudden? None have any backups, of course....

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  • GilaMonster (5/15/2009)


    ... Is it open season on corruptions all of a sudden? None have any backups, of course....

    Not yet in our company. For sure, we have backups! We take them every year ... on Christmas ... really! :laugh:

  • I was born not far from there.

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  • Florian Reischl (5/15/2009)


    GilaMonster (5/15/2009)


    ... Is it open season on corruptions all of a sudden? None have any backups, of course....

    Not yet in our company.

    Nor among any of my paying clients.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • Tom Brown (5/15/2009)


    GilaMonster (5/15/2009)


    Luke L (5/15/2009)


    Nope I was referring to the link Tom Brown posted. It seemed like he was trying to post a location and ended up putting that in instead...

    😀 Didn't even notice that.

    But slightly more picturesque

    I was checking GilaMonster's sig - vaguely familiar - thought it may have been from Battlestar - somehow it got into the Google location?

    I'll try again.

    http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=52.43613,-1.798496&spn=0.044948,0.066948&t=k&z=14

    Cool. I've been to Peterborough and Cambridge.

  • Here is where I was stationed between January 1979 and July 1981.

  • GilaMonster (5/15/2009)


    Florian Reischl (5/15/2009)


    GilaMonster (5/15/2009)


    ... Is it open season on corruptions all of a sudden? None have any backups, of course....

    Not yet in our company.

    Nor among any of my paying clients.

    I've had a little corruption, but it was caught early and treated. The couple of times it occurred it happened to indexes and a rebuild cleared it up. Hasn't happened for quite a while, but I have periodic dbcc's running to help catch problems early.

  • Lynn Pettis (5/15/2009)


    Here is where I was stationed between January 1979 and July 1981.

    OMG! Thats not what I think it is - is it? one of Uncle Sams air bases? :w00t:

    Back in 1980 I was a long-haired student and went on CND marches and the like.

    But I'm cool with Americans now. 😀

  • GilaMonster (5/15/2009)


    I was born not far from there.

    So you're a Brummie?

    How long did you stick around before heading off for the sun

    Its still raining by the way.

  • Tom Brown (5/15/2009)


    Lynn Pettis (5/15/2009)


    Here is where I was stationed between January 1979 and July 1981.

    OMG! Thats not what I think it is - is it? one of Uncle Sams air bases? :w00t:

    Back in 1980 I was a long-haired student and went on CND marches and the like.

    But I'm cool with Americans now. 😀

    Not quite, it was still an RAF base, we just leased the base.

  • GilaMonster (5/15/2009)


    Back to the subject of questions...

    There must have been 8-10 questions on database corruption in the last week or two. Is it open season on corruptions all of a sudden? None have any backups, of course....

    Paul Randal is saying the same thing. I actually found a corruption last night in a small BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) database. Fortunately just a non-clustered PK so I ran a REPAIR_REBUILD and voila in good shape.

    My DB was on a VM, I wonder if there is any correlation between VM's and corruption.

  • GilaMonster (5/15/2009)


    Back to the subject of questions...

    There must have been 8-10 questions on database corruption in the last week or two. Is it open season on corruptions all of a sudden? None have any backups, of course....

    I liked the one where they thought they had backups, but actually the most recent was four days old.

    I haven't seen signs of corruption in any of mine. On the other hand, my mind is more than corrupted enough to make up for that. And don't even get me started on how corrupt my sense of humor is!

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  • GSquared (5/15/2009)


    I liked the one where they thought they had backups, but actually the most recent was four days old.

    I liked the one where they thought they had backups, deleted the transaction log (based on some advice found on the internet) and then realised that they didn't have backups

    And don't even get me started on how corrupt my sense of humor is!

    Unfortunately, there's no repair for that.

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