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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 1

BL0B_EATER (6/11/2015)
Sorry to interrupt but I was wondering if I write up an article on using performance dashboards in SQL via a central / single view if someone could proof read it? I would appreciate it very much.

Sure, send it my way.

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BLOB EATER SSChampion Points: 14609 More actions · Answer 2

WayneS (6/11/2015)
BL0B_EATER (6/11/2015)
Sorry to interrupt but I was wondering if I write up an article on using performance dashboards in SQL via a central / single view if someone could proof read it? I would appreciate it very much.
Sure, send it my way.

Thank you kind sir- I will message you once I have re-written some bits.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 4

Has anyone ever heard about "disk unformating?" Did not know if you formatted your hard drive you could undo it. Maybe if you imaged it first.

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 5

Lynn Pettis (6/12/2015)
Has anyone ever heard about "disk unformating?" Did not know if you formatted your hard drive you could undo it. Maybe if you imaged it first.

Lynn, you mean without the use of a big magnet? 😀

Can't say I heard of it.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 6

Alvin Ramard (6/12/2015)
Lynn Pettis (6/12/2015)
Has anyone ever heard about "disk unformating?" Did not know if you formatted your hard drive you could undo it. Maybe if you imaged it first.
Lynn, you mean without the use of a big magnet? 😀
Can't say I heard of it.

Someone suggested that an OP "unformat" his drive to recover his lost database after he had reformatted his drive on his PC.

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 7

I suppose that you could create an unformatted partition for the disk or simply deallocate all the space. I'm not sure what are you referring to.

Also, a disk corruption might seem like a disk was unformatted thanks to the misleading Windows errors.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 8

Luis Cazares (6/12/2015)
I suppose that you could create an unformatted partition for the disk or simply deallocate all the space. I'm not sure what are you referring to.
Also, a disk corruption might seem like a disk was unformatted thanks to the misleading Windows errors.

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 9

Lynn Pettis (6/12/2015)
Alvin Ramard (6/12/2015)
Lynn Pettis (6/12/2015)
Has anyone ever heard about "disk unformating?" Did not know if you formatted your hard drive you could undo it. Maybe if you imaged it first.
Lynn, you mean without the use of a big magnet? 😀
Can't say I heard of it.
Someone suggested that an OP "unformat" his drive to recover his lost database after he had reformatted his drive on his PC.

I'm not sure if software to "undelete" would work on a reformatted drive.

Luis C.
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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 10

Also, has anyone placed an order for silver spoons? Looks like we have a higher than normal demand.

andrew gothard SSChampion Points: 12315 More actions · Answer 11

Luis Cazares (6/12/2015)
Lynn Pettis (6/12/2015)
Alvin Ramard (6/12/2015)
Lynn Pettis (6/12/2015)
Has anyone ever heard about "disk unformating?" Did not know if you formatted your hard drive you could undo it. Maybe if you imaged it first.
Lynn, you mean without the use of a big magnet? 😀
Can't say I heard of it.
Someone suggested that an OP "unformat" his drive to recover his lost database after he had reformatted his drive on his PC.
I'm not sure if software to "undelete" would work on a reformatted drive.

Some like Vogon might be able to help if the format doesn't do a full zero out. Nosebleedingly expensively though.

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182916 More actions · Answer 12

Lynn Pettis (6/12/2015)
Has anyone ever heard about "disk unformating?" Did not know if you formatted your hard drive you could undo it. Maybe if you imaged it first.

Undoing the disk formatting is the same as deleting the volume, sometimes needed when aligning the disk to specific I/O patterns or changing file system/configurations, otherwise it does not make sense.

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 13

Disk unformatting is not that hard. Use DBCC TimeWarp with the correct value for parameter 83. 😎

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 14

Lynn Pettis (6/12/2015)
Also, has anyone placed an order for silver spoons? Looks like we have a higher than normal demand.

Yeah, and it's been going on for a while. I think Steve should start ordering them by the case. 😉

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182916 More actions · Answer 15

Lynn Pettis (6/12/2015)
Also, has anyone placed an order for silver spoons? Looks like we have a higher than normal demand.

No worries, just placed an order of a substantial quantity, got them cheap as they are plated and made of cobolt and old mainframe parts:-P

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