I have regularly attended the SQLBits conference in the UK and find it follows a similar pattern to that described however months in advance presenters submit what they would like...

Sorry, it is some time since I did this so I can't remember. I suggest you check the manufacturers web site

Thanks for bringing this tool to my attention. I will have a go with it to see if it can help us to get our house in order.

One point:...

Unistaller worked for me but as per the suppiers web site

SQL Deadlock Detector and SQL Ultimate Performance Monitor install server-side Agent.

Do not remove our agent manually! If...

We are not using any compression tools as I assumed (wrongly?) that these would not integrate with the SQL backup Agents we are currently using to go directly to tape,...

For all your comments so far, Thank You.

I have done test restores of some systems using these tape based backups, including P.I.T. and they have worked but are not...

Ola Hallengren has a really good solution find it here: - http://ola.hallengren.com/. However, as I too have found, disk space for Logs is an issue you need to...

Has it worked before?

I know not best practice but can you connect form on the server?

Cheers

Thanks for your response, unfortunately I have only worked through the GUI so don't understand much of what is in your scripts as they don't appear to match what is...

I too have been getting these issue (along with browser service failing to restart with resource limitations and error 333 in windows system event logs) and have found an article...

What is the command to delete to the trace definition?

Thanks for this article. it was just what I needed and a feature I did not know about. I have been experimenting and it looks great however I get an...

Bit off topic I guess but, we always say we work on 'Squirrel' and my colleagues across the corridor work on 'Orable'

Run

OSQL -L

from a command line on a SQL server to get the netbios names of all instances.

Martin Bastable (9/15/2009)

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I think something that is often missed is monitoring - people set up lots of lovely processes and systems, backup plans, etc.etc. - but then they (or management,...