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x64 Memory Issues - revisited

Grumpy Old DBA - Beware the darkside ! — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:31:15 GMT

It's funny how things seem to bob to the surface every so often, a bit like revivals of Musicals

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Bare Metal Restore Part 2

Grumpy Old DBA - Do not be fooled by imitations ! — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:48:17 GMT

I blogged previously about how Windows 2008 R2 has native "bare metal restore"  

Tally Table

Ozren Krznaric's Blog — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:19:08 GMT

At the time being, SQL Server (version 2008 R2) still supports no solution for a general purpose sequencing

re: Scheduled Jobs on strike ??

GrumpyOldDBA — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:18:42 GMT

sadly not all otherwise it would have been an easy strike! It's quite possible that the time server or times in general were something akin to back to the future so I'd figure that's a pretty a good call, thanks.

re: Scheduled Jobs on strike ??

morticia — Wed, 25 May 2011 19:21:34 GMT

Hi Mr Grumpy,

Is this occurring on VMWare or similar virtual servers by any chance ?

I have experienced exactly those symptoms and the root cause was a VMWare 'feature' which caused the system time to drift in and out during scheduled VMWare snapshots.

This caused the SQL Agent schedule to 'never arrive'.

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Are there any potential problems moving from 32 bit Enterprise to 64 bit Standard SQL Server 2005 Drija

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