Curious are extracts from BizTalk as source to "some SQL Server" destination? Although not recommended, but seems to help is using (nolock) hint. Was not sure from message...

inevercheckthis2002 (10/7/2013)

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With fourteen 15k RPM SAS drives in a RAID 10 array, at a generous 200...

himanshu.sinha (9/17/2013)

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I am moved to an old project , but sure why but the previous guy was collecting the total extent for the DB everyday . I am assuming that...

When doing a new SQL install, I asked for additional drives, It was mentioned to me that this is not done when storage is on a SAN because...

Not sure if you were looking for other options? (Your post caught my eye - that msft had a data virtualization location)

I'm not affiliated with them, however I did see...

So is sharepoint slow? Or you are just seeing this in DMV?

Yes, that's correct,...

berhanem 9188 (8/12/2013)

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Dear SSC team,

I hope your day is going well. I am tasked to move SQL Server 2008 DB, 2TB, which is in Simple Recovery Model, from local...

GilaMonster (6/7/2013)

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If you've rebuilt the indexes, then the indexes are...

GilaMonster (6/7/2013)

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If your indexes have just been rebuilt, then you probably don't have much logical fragmentation.

Red Gate's got a tool to show you index fragmentation. Free tool last time I...

Does your Reporting Services Server have permissions to communicate with your SMTP Relay Server?

- Maybe a better question is, has this worked before or first time setting up email?

Hi please take a look at this link:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159206.aspx

Let me know if you have more questions, good luck!

pnorlin (5/31/2013)

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Problem solved for the moment:

resolution:

Action performed by MS support personal on our server is:

Checked the connectivity through universal data link file:

1.by using Microsoft OLE DB Provider for...

IgorMi (5/30/2013)

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Hi All,

I want to see someone's explanation if there is a performance loss (and why in case of) when some VLFs are small and some are big, in a...

terry.home (5/27/2013)

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Not a bad suggestion. I have considired this, but not done it.

I dont know whether the last six months worth of data is any smaller in comparison to...

The backups are no longer failing. They were failing due to lack of disk space and this has now been sorted, partly down to allocating more disk space, and partly...