Hey Mike,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Yeah I also looked into the session timeout setting but this  document https://blog.dbi-services.com/sql-server-alwayson-and-availability-groups-session-timeout-parameter/ states that it has no effect on...

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by  broonie27.

Mike,

I think I'm having the same issue as you. It looks like VMware is kicking off a snapshot process and then it's causing a node to lose connectivity for a...

Yeah, the application which uses the DB will be off also so there shouldn't be any activity during or after.

Thanks for the reply.

Not a good idea to do this during working hours I take it?

Bhuvnesh (1/17/2013)

From BOL If target_size is specified, DBCC SHRINKFILE tries to shrink the file to the...

The old maintenance plan, when it had the shrink task actually did a re-index before the shrink which I now know is very silly indeed.

I haven't actually manually run...