at least, in my scenario, that is.

heh...right. So "good luck" means there's no way to give accurate estimates? 🙂

Thanks. I'm not so much concerned with the server load as far as other connections go. This is essentially an ETL box that, when the processes are finished,...

yeah, i figured that part out. i thought i'd caught it and added a second t-log in time, but apparently not...just realized this morning that the number of null...

I have not done that yet, Steve. Thanks for the suggestion.

Yes, after the uninstall of the same tools. No other apps are running. I have a feeling that this might be OS-related. Going to see if we...

I've reinstalled the client tools about 3 times now.

Thanks Steve...I had a feeling that the page faults were a red herring, but they did seem unusual (especially because nothing else was hitting the instance), so I thought I'd...

Nope, nuttin'. Pretty weird.

4x Intel Xeon L7555 @ 1.87GHz (8-core)

160 GB RAM

Windows Server 2008 SP2 Enterprise, fully patched

SQL Server 2008R2 Developer Edition, fully patched

also, no.

Nope. Any other way that this could've been installed? This is a fairly new patch, according to MSFT.

Ok, yeah, I might understand that. I'm more concerned about why this patch was installed when I specifically have Windows Update set to not automatically install. This is...

No, sorry, I missed the step to delete the transaction log from the new database. I'm ok now. Thanks.

Hi Gail, I followed the instructions on your article and, upon reaching the last step, where I created the new database, stopped the SQL Service, renamed the files, and restarted...