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  • RE: Is it possible to restore a database to a lower version server?

    What's the error that's raised when you attempt to restore the database?

  • RE: Recovery

    Ray Mond (3/6/2011)


    Actually, I meant to write that doing option 2 was fine, and was actually referring to option 2 all the while.

    And I take that back, if your objective...

  • RE: Recovery

    Actually, I meant to write that doing option 2 was fine, and was actually referring to option 2 all the while.

  • RE: Recovery

    I don't have any links to documents that specifically address what you are looking for. To be honest, I've never really thought about it, but I guess I trust...

  • RE: Recovery

    Is sql server terminating equivalent to SQL Shutdown with Nowait option?

    No, that wouldn't be good for startup recovery. If you run this:

    DBCC TRACEON(3502, -1)

    SQL Server will then log checkpoints...

  • RE: Recovery

    ... then windows may kill the SQL process before the checkpoint completes.

    Not windows, but the user, as per this page here.

  • RE: Recovery

    1. stopping the ms sql server services and restarting the windows machine.

    2. Restarting the windows machine without stopping the ms sql server .

    Option 1 is fine. When you...

  • RE: Differential backup failed

    Any useful details in the SQL Server log? One suggestion would be to use Profiler to trace the events at around 03:30.

  • RE: How to backup to single .BAK file not a set.

    When creating a backup from TSQL, and using a rented database on a cloud server, is it possible to specify a local path (local in the sense of my client...

  • RE: Transaction logs? Snapshots? What to do?

    That sounds like putting all your eggs in one big (albeit powerful) basket. Assuming that you're still running nightly full backups and making copies of it off-site, you'll lose...

  • RE: How to backup to single .BAK file not a set.

    And the TSQL syntax is to add REPLACE to the WITH clause of the backup.

    REPLACE is for restores. It's INIT or FORMAT for backups, depending on your previous backup...

  • RE: SQL 2008 R2 restore terminating abnormally

    Perhaps the drive got damaged during transit? Could try generating and comparing MD5 checksums for the original backup file at your client's place, and the file on the USB...

  • RE: Slower backups on SAN Volumes

    Could try measuring the read throughput and write throughput individually, as described here.

  • RE: Can't restore the log

    I compre the lsn using restore header. The first lsn of the transaction log backup is in the range of the last filegroup backup and the last lsn of the...

  • RE: New to SQL backups

    Suggested reading: www.sqlbackuprestore.com.

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