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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 1

GilaMonster (8/7/2009)

Anyone seen today's article? The article's fine but some of the comments are scary....

Example:

A maintenance plan should be set up to truncate, shrink, and backup the transaction log -- nightly, if necessary.

hmmm, looks like it left out deleting the log file after shrinking.

😎

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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150457 More actions · Answer 2

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August 7, 2009 at 10:06 am

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You don't have to be psychic to help out around here - but it certainly helps.

Actually it's quite spooky how often people post questions about things that have happened to me recently.

Hmmm. :alien:

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 3

Paul White (8/7/2009)

You don't have to be psychic to help out around here - but it certainly helps.

Actually it's quite spooky how often people post questions about things that have happened to me recently.

Hmmm. :alien:

psychic? or psychotic?

😀

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004494 More actions · Answer 4

Alvin Ramard (8/7/2009)

GilaMonster (8/7/2009)

Anyone seen today's article? The article's fine but some of the comments are scary....

Example:

A maintenance plan should be set up to truncate, shrink, and backup the transaction log -- nightly, if necessary.

hmmm, looks like it left out deleting the log file after shrinking.

😎

Now that's just overkill. You might as well shoot it and bury it under a metre of concrete if you want to make really sure...

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004494 More actions · Answer 5

Anyone really know their way around replication?

http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic766992-146-1.aspx

Gail Shaw
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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 6

GilaMonster (8/7/2009)

Alvin Ramard (8/7/2009)

GilaMonster (8/7/2009)

Anyone seen today's article? The article's fine but some of the comments are scary....

Example:

A maintenance plan should be set up to truncate, shrink, and backup the transaction log -- nightly, if necessary.

hmmm, looks like it left out deleting the log file after shrinking.

😎

Now that's just overkill. You might as well shoot it and bury it under a metre of concrete if you want to make really sure...

That would probably stop the log from growing too big. Might not be good for performance though.

😀

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jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 7

Paul White (8/7/2009)

You don't have to be psychic to help out around here - but it certainly helps.

Actually it's quite spooky how often people post questions about things that have happened to me recently.

Hmmm. :alien:

Either you're a trend-setter or your fellow employees are mucking up your data and posting here to fix it before you notice...

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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 8

jcrawf02 (8/7/2009)

Paul White (8/7/2009)

You don't have to be psychic to help out around here - but it certainly helps.

Actually it's quite spooky how often people post questions about things that have happened to me recently.

Hmmm. :alien:

Either you're a trend-setter or your fellow employees are mucking up your data and posting here to fix it before you notice...

And I made myself look like an idiot by putting post there before reading everyone's post. 😀

Because the same thing happened to us as well. 🙂

-Roy

The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53353 More actions · Answer 9

I just tried to look at the attachment for a recent Candidate Reviews post. Would someone carefully save it to disk first (without left-clicking on it), open it in an editor, and tell me what it is doing? It's html and what appears to be a script, but I'm outside my limited area of expertise.

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184388 More actions · Answer 10

Jack Corbett

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August 7, 2009 at 6:58 pm

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Bob,

I downloaded the file and all I see in it is SQL.

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 11

I agree with Jack.

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53353 More actions · Answer 12

Thanks, Jack. I just tried to download it again and no luck. Sounds like a fun problem, maybe someone else can help the guy out.

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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150457 More actions · Answer 13

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August 8, 2009 at 12:57 am

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Bob Hovious (8/7/2009)

Thanks, Jack. I just tried to download it again and no luck. Sounds like a fun problem, maybe someone else can help the guy out.

I posted the content of the attachment in-line, just in case you want to have a go with it.

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