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  • RE: Maint Plan not deleting old Backup Files

      I too am very disappointed in the new maint. plans. Very disappointed !  They were so easy, quick and reliable in 2000. They have gone very much backwards in...

  • RE: Maint Plan not deleting old Backup Files

    Functionality I think it is the same. I think there is something not working correctly would be my guess. I have installed SQL 2005 and played around with maint. plans...

  • RE: Maint Plan not deleting old Backup Files

    I would open a case with MSFT. The product 'should' work.....

    Alternatives are to create the backup statement yourself and create a job to run it the old fashioned way......

  • RE: Maint Plan not deleting old Backup Files

    I am disappointed to say the least on the redo of the maint. plan stuff in 2005. It was 95% very good in 2000. They have removed so much flexability...

  • RE: Double-Take

    It can replicate ANY Windows file(s) outside of SQL Server. It is good for syncing non SQL Server files for disaster recovery. We have a few critical servers that requires...

  • RE: Double-Take

    We already own this product and are starting to implement to get our disaster recovery site up-to-date. The reason we picked this product was to sync our SQL Servers AND...

  • RE: SQL Server Managment Studio Frustrations

    I guess some things that we currently do in SS2000 we will have to get a little creative when we upgrade. There is one db that we have an outside...

  • RE: SQL Server Managment Studio Frustrations

    Yes I am. SP1 did fix a couple of things in MGT studio.

  • RE: SQL Server Managment Studio Frustrations

    Yes. They took a very good, robust, simple process and made more steps and more complicated. I don't know why on earth they removed the easy check box to remove...

  • RE: Indexing and TransLog

    Did you look in Enterprise Manager,taskpad of the db and see what it shows there ?

  • RE: Job history

    Don't forget this one... it will delete old db backup history. Otherwise your backup history will get quite large and slow down to a crawl when you want to restore...

  • RE: Rebuild master database

    Copy SQL Server install CD to the server. (required for the master db rebuild process)

     

    In cluster admin make all sure SQL Server services...

  • RE: Clustered drives??

    Also, don't forget... if you do that and THAT specific server dies you have NO backup. That is the dangerous part.

  • RE: Shrinking Databases...Yes or No?

    The only time I shrink a db file is for these reasons:

    Dangerously low on space to buy time until a permanent resolution is found.

    A huge dbccreindex takes place that causes...

  • RE: Clustered drives??

    You don't want the local drive to be part of the cluster. The reason is that when server one fails or is not part of the active SQL Server you...

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