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RE: IMCEDAs LiteSpeed backup software

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I've also been using Sql Litespeed on several boxes backing up around a terabyte of data across all servers. I had some issues with the older 3.0.123 and up untill the new 3.1.x versions all of that is running very well. All my backup and restore scripts are centered around litespeed as well. I don't […]

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2004-07-21

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RE: automatic statistics collection?

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As per BOL:SQL Server automatically updates this statistical information periodically as the data in the tables changes. The sampling is random across data pages, and taken from the table or the smallest nonclustered index on the columns needed by the statistics. After a data page has been read from disk, all the rows on the […]

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2004-07-21

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RE: Out of memory issue

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Well, you can always fire up Task Manager on his machine to see if there are any memory hogs running.  Also, even a small database can have a large memory leak, and a small database can download huge amount of data (especially OLE objects & images) that could be a problem.Another thought: check his free […]

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2004-07-21

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RE: varchar2 field needs quotes - Microsoft Server 2000

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Sorry if I wasn't clear. SQL Server 2000 still performs implicit conversions such as your example. However, if the varchar(12) column contains non-integer values, you may get an error when you specify an integer constant in the WHERE clause (WHERE causeno = 17741) because in order to compare values, SQL Server converts the value in the […]

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2004-07-20

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RE: SQL Server crashing Windows when indexing

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PeterWe've had this database and the TEMPDB both set to increase by 50% (both data and log files) and auto-shrink has been disabled.  Unfortunately, to no avail.Current statistics for database is as follows:Data file size = 4084 MB (1447 MB free)Log file size = 133 MB (118 MB free)For the specific table that the data […]

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2004-07-20

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Fill factor best practices

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Question: What is better, a fill factor of 0, a fill factor of 100 or something in between? I know what a fillfactor is for, but something in BOL blurs the issue for me. Under Fill factor options it is more or less stated, that there is no difference between a value of 0 or 100:A […]

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2004-07-12

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RE: Operators

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You have to have SQLAgentMail configured before you can send emails or pages to the operators you've setup. K. Brian Kelley http://www.truthsolutions.com/ Author: Start to Finish Guide to SQL Server Performance Monitoring http://www.netimpress.com/shop/product.asp?ProductID=NI-SQL1

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2003-05-14

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