Comments on: More Vendor Frustrations http://thomaslarock.com/2009/04/more-vendor-frustrations/ Sat, 19 May 2012 00:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Gail http://thomaslarock.com/2009/04/more-vendor-frustrations/comment-page-1/#comment-444 Gail Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:14:15 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=1360#comment-444 Reminds me of a company I worked at several years back. I set up some replication to keep a reporting server up to date, but every monday morning the subscription had errors indicating it needed a reinit. After a couple of weeks of this I dug through the jobs with the DBA (read sysadmin who thought he knew SQL) watching. I found a job scheduled for midnight on sunday: sp_repldone BACKUP LOG ... with truncate only DBCC ShrinkDatabase Hmmm. I wonder if that could be the problem... Oh, and this was SQL 2000 where log backups would continue without error after a log truncation. They were useless for restores though. Reminds me of a company I worked at several years back. I set up some replication to keep a reporting server up to date, but every monday morning the subscription had errors indicating it needed a reinit.

After a couple of weeks of this I dug through the jobs with the DBA (read sysadmin who thought he knew SQL) watching.

I found a job scheduled for midnight on sunday:
sp_repldone
BACKUP LOG … with truncate only
DBCC ShrinkDatabase

Hmmm. I wonder if that could be the problem…

Oh, and this was SQL 2000 where log backups would continue without error after a log truncation. They were useless for restores though.

]]> By: SQLBatman http://thomaslarock.com/2009/04/more-vendor-frustrations/comment-page-1/#comment-443 SQLBatman Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:29:17 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=1360#comment-443 i looked, but could not find the shrink database statement. they had done some good work, but they fumbled at the goal line on this one. i looked, but could not find the shrink database statement. they had done some good work, but they fumbled at the goal line on this one.

]]> By: Jack Corbett http://thomaslarock.com/2009/04/more-vendor-frustrations/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Jack Corbett Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:11:59 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=1360#comment-442 Classic. I bet they had a customer run out of space for the transaction log and that's why they do the truncate and shrink. Is the shrink database in there, too? They might as well fragment the database while they are at it. Classic. I bet they had a customer run out of space for the transaction log and that’s why they do the truncate and shrink.

Is the shrink database in there, too? They might as well fragment the database while they are at it.

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