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  • Reply To: SSIS 4 Minute Job Takes Over 19 *Hours* on New Server

    Is the new VM in Azure by any chance?  How does the 2 core new VM compare to the old server (2 cores and 12GB seems small for a production...

  • Reply To: Disk space

    Another thing to check is to see if any other drives on the box are using volume shadow copy and storing them on your log drive.  I've seen systems set...

  • Reply To: Changing Computer Retail

    After my first PC purchased in the early 90's (386DX-25 with 4MB of memory and a 105MB hard drive), I built all my personal desktops.  I don't think I saved...

  • Reply To: Your Best Day

    My best days as a DBA have always been times when I have shined in somebody else's crisis.  Two in particular come to mind.

    Sometime around 2004 I had an internal...

  • Reply To: The Benefits and Detractions of Remote

    Prior to our HQ office relocation a few years ago I had a 7-15 minute commute to a beautiful forested corporate campus.  At the time I told people my commute...

  • Reply To: The COVID-19 Impact

    After six confirmed deaths in nearby Kirkland over the weekend, on Monday the company I work for closed the corporate HQ office in downtown Seattle for a minimum of a...

  • Reply To: The Minimum Upgrade Point

    Minimum upgrade point for us depends greatly on the application which will be using it.  That is not always a current version.  I get to spend the weekend migrating two...

  • RE: Looking Back at the Summit

    I noticed SQL Operations Studio popping up in a bunch of the sessions I attended last week.  First time I'd seen it, and I'm still a bit confused as to...

  • RE: Protecting sa

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/25/2016)


    Tony Lanterman (3/25/2016)


    In our environment (several hundred SQL instances geographically dispersed around North America) we were required to randomize the SA password by audit long...

  • RE: Protecting sa

    In our environment (several hundred SQL instances geographically dispersed around North America) we were required to randomize the SA password by audit long ago. We have a process which...

  • RE: Who's Got a Preteen SQL Server?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/5/2016)


    Tony Lanterman (2/5/2016)


    For us, the push to get off SQL2005 over the last year hasn't been to get away from SQL2005 as much as to...

  • RE: Who's Got a Preteen SQL Server?

    For us, the push to get off SQL2005 over the last year hasn't been to get away from SQL2005 as much as to get off the Windows Server 2003 that...

  • RE: Shrinking the Budget

    Sean Redmond (11/19/2015)


    Has anyone tried serious licence-saving activities like transferring those DBs that can be transferred to SQL Server Express Edition instances and re-writing SQL Server Agent jobs for the...

  • RE: The Worst Comments

    The most annoying was back in my RPG coding days. For those two young to remember, IBM RPG was a positional language originally designed for punch cards. With...

  • RE: Multiple Backup Files

    Sean McCown had a great session on this topic at the last SQL PASS Summit (DBA-307). Very much worth your time if you have the session DVD. One...

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