That's interesting, thanks for that Jeff, unfortunately it is not as simple as this. We run dozens of servers off this particular SAN that are running Oracle under Unix...

SQLIOSim was run and nothing was discovered. Our DBA was then asked by some friends at MS to run a different DBCC command option (sorry don't recall it) and was...

As one of the "server boys" I work closely with our DBAs, and if I can get by not giving them administrator access.. I would, but I realize that if...

Folks, taking this more from a sysadmin perspective as opposed to a DBA, I started off with DOS/Netware going to Windows and now am expected to support Linux (RedHat/SuSE for...

Like many people, I got into this field "accidentally" when my primary career aspiration wasn't working for me. When I started in IT back in the mid-80s you were...

Thank you for the info Lucky (I'll review when I get a chance -- always good to be able find information through peers).

In essence this was a strange issue, our...

I currently work for one of the big outsourcers performing remote sysadmin work and solutions architecture. I have been telecommuting for the past two years and I have realized...

Unlike athletes (and all kidding aside - I don't care how good an athlete you are you don't deserve to be paid millions for what you do), older IT folks...

David, can you post the McAfee website URL that discusses the issue. Thank you.

My favorite one of all time is;

Piss poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

Hi Jonathan, I don't know if this is much help to you since I am not a developer, but we used to run an application that ran on Unidata, and...

Thank you Martin, you are correct.  I copied the files from the CD to a local drive and ensured that the read-only attribute was...

Thanks for the replies guys especially Noel (for the laugh) .  I needed some real world examples of what other guys have done in...

hoo-t, I am not dis-agreeing with you with regards to the procedures that have been presented.  The reason for TDP is to backup directly to tape while SQL server is live. Initially...

Thank you for the replies guys.  Ideally we were supposed to use the solution you described EM->San Disk->Tape, unfortunately someone did not provision the disk space (don't you just love...