Well, I do not know for sure how much time it would take to create all statistics, but we really have very little free time over night.

There are some really...

Well, breaking the system seems like a bit of a reason not to try it.

Was it easy to put things back? (How?)

Hmmm... there are a lot of tables and a lot of columns. I guess I need to do some experimentation to find out how that would go. I'm...

THanks. I keep pressing both HP and EMC for some apples to apples comparisons (e.g. IOMeter runs) but haven't gotten anywhere yet. They both want to quote "we...

These positions (we ended up with two) have been filled.

Isn't that only SQL events?

We have as many or more issues arise that show up in the windows event logs - device problems, user authentication issues (e.g. service accounts),...

The problem with dumpel is timeliness.

First, you have to deal with overlapping dumps and filter out the duplicates (you can control this somewhat with the "last 1 day" but it's...

I saw a couple of you mention event logs. Do you mean Windows event logs?

If so, how are you automating that? It's a recurring problem around here,...

First, I know of nothing that keeps you from doing log shipping with standard. It's not all packaged up, but the basic SQL 7 scripts that were provided will...

I was fighting the trailing blank problem just the other night, so I appreciate your example. I have no idea on the trailing line.

There's also always DTS as an...

Either I don't understand, or I am not being clear.

We have a computer named SRV-DW running an instance named \SQL2000.

I want to be able to connect to that server by...

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Well lets step back a minute here and talk about IT Directors - if I had an IT director that sniffing around...

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<so and so posts a highly technical dba q>

title is - "Director of IT"

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So what...