can anyone help me? I just installed WinNT 4 SP3 and now trying to install SQL 6.5 on an IBM Netfinity 5500 with RAID 5. There is one 500mb partition for the system and then one 12 gig partition and SQL only seems to see ~117mb of the 12 gig partition. Is this a known prob? Thanks for any input
Josh
I was informed (by Microsoft) that for all SQL Servers prior 2008 recommended (or must) stripe size is 64k
Does anyone knows full set of settings that must be applied when
setting up raid 5 for sql server box
Thanks
Dear All,
I've been asked to build a 64bit Windows 2003 server which will SQL Server Enterprise 2000 64bit edition on it. This is my first foray into the world of 64 Server OSs, so hoping to get some advise from the wise. This will be used as a back end to a web application. This server has been purchased with 5 disks (all 146GB disks) in it. Currently this has been setup from the manufacturer as RAID 1+1 with 1 disk not allocated.
I was going to reconfigure the logical drives to have RAID 1 (2 drives) which has OS and swapfile on it, and RAID 5 (3 drives) with all SQL data (the main DB I am estimating to be 20-30GB) on it.
Reading through a couple of forums and google results regarding determining stripe size, it seems some people are recommending putting the tempdb and logs on a seperate drive to the rest of the SQL data, as well as trying to get the optinum strip size.
Can you let me know your opinions on if my proposed logical drive setup seems OK (or just keep one logical drive as either RAID5 or 6), and if tempdb and logs should be on the OS, or should stay on the RAID 5 array? Also, for the stripe size, should I think the same as a 32bit OS, and just use 128/64 or 64/64?
Geoff
edit: SQL Server type corrected.
HI There,
Generally speaking, is it better to use a large or small stripe size for a Raid 5 array (4 drives) ? I would appreciate any specifics also.
Thanks in advance.
Charlie
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name rows reserved data index unused
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After I updated the table to remove the xml, the output of sp_spaceused remained the same.My first thought was that it was probably statistics, so I updated statistics for the table, and nothing changed.I then updated statistics for everything in the database, still no change.I then ran DBCC CLEANTABLE for that table. I didn't really expect it to make a difference, and no surprise, it didn't.
The index on the table is a clustered index on just a GUID column.I rebuilt the index and again it still made no difference (that's a bit of a lie - index_size changed by a few hundred KB)my next test was to run 'select * into XXX from YYY' to create a copy of this table with the same data and data types. I also created the same clustered index from the original table onto the new one.If I then run sp_spaceused on this new copy of the table, I see what I expect to see in sp_spaceused - a table using approximately 256MB of space
name rows reserved data index unused
SPS_TEST 1660979 266400 KB 266400 KB 304 KB56 KB
To be honest, this isn't hugely critical, but I'm just curious as to why the original table is still reporting 2.6GB size, when I think it should probably be nearer 256MB.
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Doing so (all RAID1) will allow me to have a separate physical volume for the TEMP database - that is heavily used by my app.
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Hi Every body
I Have A Report Containing Header/Footer And
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ALTER DATABASE <DBNAME> MODIFY FILE ( NAME = <DBLOGFILENAME, SIZE = 2 ) "
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Hello,
I have a matrix with a title column. My matrix has a column that is expanded in 2 with data changes
as followings:
MY TITLE1 MY TITLE2
YEAR 2007 YEAR 2008 } matrix
matrix Column column } matrix
How can I change de title (MY TITLE2) differently according to the changing value of the dynamic data column ?
My title2 has to be located above the YEAR 2008 and has to be different from MY TITLE 1.
Thank you for your help.
Best Regards,
Hirondelle.
Right now I have the following expression in mind.
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IIF(Fields!Horn.Value <> "", "Horn:"& Fields!Horn.Value, Nothing)& vbcrlf &
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Here is an imageÂ
How do I decrease the size of the tablix if no data is displaying so it co inside's with the rest of the tablix as in this image.
I haveÂ
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2. Click Visibility.
3. Select Show or hide based on an expression.
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I don't want to hide or show based on the result I just require that the tablix that doesn't return data stay's in proportion with the rest.
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My problem is I cannot shrink the horizontal width of the tablix and therefore the report width either...
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Invoice in Report Builder
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Ivan
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BJ