for all others which will reading this article after two years.

Try to add some more space at the end of the data file (1MB should help)

After that, it is very...

Hi Steve,

that (logging) I was doing a lot in the past project - and I was missing the point too :crazy:

Every time I tell this fact to customers (e.g. the...

Hi folks,

thx for your reply - you should not think I'll never use them - I've said - I won't rely on them.

I completely agree with you, that start with...

nice gif - how to get a picture in?

RBAR 🙂

this might be good for a consultant - but after all, I don't like to bill people when they were sure they was doing their very best (with the best...

Hello,

I not amused that so many people rely on maintenance plans - there was(? or better "are"!) so many bugs in them.

Yes - they might be good for non DBAs...

Hi Mark,

why did you prefer custom maintenance plans over custom SQL scripts? (Yes it is a very interesting solution you showed up! - thx!)

I've seen so many bugs in maintenance...

there is no such version SQL Server 2000 Datacenter Edition

perhaps you mean Windows 2003 ... Datacenter Edition 😉

Hi Steve,

next time I suggest to have check boxes instead of radio boxes.

You show us two correct answers!

Ralf

I feel sorry with all of us - whom was using the first...

very good question and another example to know the basics.

THe (really good) excerpt about BOL shows again, that sometimes "older" knowledge is better knowledge.

Look in new courses/books and you see...

I feel sorry - i was on a tricky ice.

In the headline you wrote query hint - and there is no QUERY hint with remote

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181714.aspx

but in the question you...

Pretty sure - you're right...

as I would say:

" ... Can I recover using the log backups? "

You do not have any log backups!

If so - it implies that you have a fresh full backup...