Well, these are kind of related...  Our problem is that we can see large, juicy, contiguous, unallocated chunks in the file (multi mb) from the EXTENTINFO command, yet the File still seems...

Normally I would just brush a comment like that off, but it seemed so pointless and unnecessary to the discussion and the whole misguided response is sending the thread into a needless tangent.

I...

Our experience with the Enterprise Backups (backups that work on many platforms, plus they have a SQL Agent) is that they are slow, intrusive and buggy, but that's just our...

Andy,

Let's assume that I can't get to the connect string (long story). Is there any way to globally (by DB? by user? by ??) configure the isolation level besides...