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  • RE: Writing to the Passive Node

    GilaMonster (9/28/2011)


    Database mirroring comes to mind. The database on the second server is still unavailable (because it's in the restoring state), the mirroring keeps the two in sync.

    Yeah, that was...

  • RE: Writing to the Passive Node

    Elliott Whitlow (9/28/2011)


    sickpup (9/28/2011)


    By normal failover clustering, do you mean at the o/s level? Or is there something else in SQL, besides the "SAN-required" clustering that I'm missing?

    Yes, I mean...

  • RE: Writing to the Passive Node

    Elliott Whitlow (9/28/2011)


    sickpup (9/28/2011)


    Hmmm... ok, let me phrase it this way.

    If our primary concern is having the ability to failover to a different database server in the event of a...

  • RE: Writing to the Passive Node

    Hmmm... ok, let me phrase it this way.

    If our primary concern is having the ability to failover to a different database server in the event of a problem, but we...

  • RE: Failed reindex caused massive DB file growth

    Just a quick note to say that everything went smoothly over the weekend. I identified and dropped the nc indexes on the bad DB files. Then, ran shrinkfile, the index...

  • RE: Failed reindex caused massive DB file growth

    Great info - thanks all. I knew shrinkfile would cause fragmentation... just didn't know how bad it would be.

    So, here's the gameplan:

    Identify the NC indexes on the affected DB Spaces...

  • RE: Failed reindex caused massive DB file growth

    TheSQLGuru (2/17/2011)


    So my #3 was the winner, eh? :hehe:

    If you really do need the space (quite likely) and can stand the downtime, I would drop all NC indexes, shrink...

  • RE: Failed reindex caused massive DB file growth

    Er, uh... well, this is embarrassing.

    So, looking back through the settings on the index rebuild maintenance task, I see that "Change free space per page percentage to:" is set at...

  • RE: Database in Recovery Pending State

    Just as an FYI, in case it helps anyone...

    We recently had this same problem. One of our DBs was stuck in a "Recovery Pending" state following a sudden (and unusual)...

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