Paul White NZ (3/25/2010)

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Grant Fritchey (3/25/2010)

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Heck better Database Administrator than Database Developer. There's an average $20k difference in their salaries in the US. What I really do is develop databases,...

I've never been too found of it. In my company the HR person has it for me as "Data Business Administrator"....

Alvin Ramard (3/25/2010)

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Trey, can you add 2 dashes in front of the command? ...

For the record in 2005 it will let you execute the BACKUP...

Thanks Lynn. That is a great point and will use your scenario when speaking with the engineers.

Anyone have anything light or funny to move this thread back into the right direction?:-D

Level 1 support won't but if I can get past them and speak to their engineers, then yes they can. I've spoken with them before and they admit they...

Trey Staker (3/25/2010)

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Jack Corbett (3/25/2010)

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Trey Staker (3/25/2010)

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I've got a 3rd party companies support that uses sql server as their DB for their database that is insisting I add this command...

Jack Corbett (3/25/2010)

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Trey Staker (3/25/2010)

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I've got a 3rd party companies support that uses sql server as their DB for their database that is insisting I add this command to my...

CirquedeSQLeil (3/25/2010)

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Give them the explanation that you have already done that and then don't do it. Or you could run the command and then perform a full backup immediately.

Then...

It is run just before the full back up. It really does no harm exec put a warning in the sql error log. It's the principle of it.

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I removed it and I'm going to post it outside this thread...

This is a fun thread...

2nd EDIT: Link to what was here in the right thread:

HERE

Chad Crawford (3/24/2010)

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I use this on 2K5. I have a job that runs every night and stores it in a table so I can see historical trends -...

cclark-1005023 (3/24/2010)

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I like the thoughts in this, but we use a more general solution where we track similar information for all production jobs. Instead of using a manually configured...