http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/ Tampa Bay SQL User Group Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:20:28 GMT Nathan Heaivilin http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/452 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/452 Great! That works. Party of our restore process is to rebuild all of the indexes upon restore during a server move anyway. Well, atleast the ones that are Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:47:31 GMT Jonathan Kehayias http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/451 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/451 I thought I'd share this because Kalen is such an amazing teacher. http://www.eventbrite.com/event/433310042 More information can be found on her blog post on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:43:44 GMT Jonathan Kehayias http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/450 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/450 Yes, that is the only way you'd fix it. Jonathan Kehayias, MCITP jmkehayias@... SQL Server MVP http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jonathan_kehayias/ Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:45:06 GMT Nathan Heaivilin http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/449 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/449 Yeah, I was the one who asked him the question. Hadn't heard back from him yet, but I haven't checked my junk mail on it. If we consider that the indexes are Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:11:16 GMT Jorge Segarra http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/448 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/448 I know that in order to install SQL 2008 on a 2008 cluster you NEED to have SP1 to work on it and to do that you have to slipstream your install bits. Here's a Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:06:35 GMT snugglebug http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/447 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/447 Does anyone have experience with installing SQL 2008 SP1 on a Windows 2008 cluster? At the end of last year I attempted a cluster install with SQL 2008 RTM Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:22:00 GMT Jonathan Kehayias http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/446 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/446 ... at the file level. Paul Randal proves that shrinking will cause internal fragmentation on this blog post: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:21:59 GMT Garry McGibbon http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/445 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/445 shrinking the database will not cause fragmentation, either internal or at the file level. repeatedly shrinking/growing can cause fragmentation at the file Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:07:24 GMT Jonathan Kehayias http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/444 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/444 No, the fragmentation internally that existed when the database was backed up, will exist when the database is restored. This question was asked on twitter by Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:06:46 GMT Good, Mike http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/443 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/443 A long time ago I'm pretty sure the answer would have been yes, but now I don't know. I think you could prove this for yourself with AdventureWorks before you Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:53:30 GMT Nathan Heaivilin http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/442 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/442 Alright, So interesting question. Due to some wonderful programming by one of our .NET developers, we had an audit table grow to some stupidly large number in Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:44:36 GMT Good, Mike http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/441 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/441 I'm sorry to hear about the virus. 1st sentence paragraph 2 was the answer I was hoping for, especially with all your experience on those forums. Please Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:51:19 GMT Jonathan Kehayias http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/440 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/440 Sorry Mike, I've had a nasty stomach virus the last 48 hours and haven't been at work or in my personal email since SQL Saturday. Trying to catch up now. To Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:50:16 GMT Good, Mike http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/439 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/439 There he is! Ok, I'm on board with this hack if required. I've done this before, just to eliminate failed entries that would not go away. But we're all Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:39:17 GMT Jonathan Kehayias http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/438 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tampasql/message/438 If you copy the key value into a text file, you can always paste the values to be deleted back into the key once SQL Setup completes. I've done this a couple