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How can service pack rollback file end up on non-system volume?

I'm attempting to upgrade a SQL 2005 SP3 clustered instance to SP4. During installation, a rollback event took place with the error indicating there was insufficient space on the the disk. The system ...
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Is there a canonical list of MySQL defaults which should be changed

I'm setting up a new mysql server as we're building a new app at work. Most of the developers/operations guys are familiar with mysql. Many of mysql's settings (eg strict mode) are set badly by ...
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Tuning Question

Every so often our box is HAMMERED to a crawl %Wait goes to 40 or 50% and connections grows to 300 or so. i think its due to a query running, but i wanted to see if any of the settigns on the mysql ...
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Reasons for disabling statistics auto update?

I just learned that a client company I work for has decided to keep the auto update statistics options off for some of their SQL Servers, and the DBAs manually troubleshooting performance issues when ...
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Why don't my .my.cnf settings work?

I have a .my.cnf file in my home directory on my desktop that includes: [dbid] user = myusername password = mypassword database = dbname host = server.location.com If I recall correctly, before ...
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Why does MySQL say I'm out of memory?

I was trying to execute a fairly large INSERT...SELECT in MySQL with JDBC, and I got the following exception: Exception in thread "main" java.sql.SQLException: Out of memory (Needed 1073741824 bytes) ...
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How do you calculate mysql max_connections variable?

How do you calculate mysql max_connections ? What do you take into consideration ?
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Can PostgreSQL tell me what configuration files it's using?

I am having trouble with some changes I'm making to a configuration file. I think PostgreSQL is not using the ones I'm modifying. Is there any way to get postgres (maybe some environment variable) to ...
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Are there any MySQL Benchmarking tools?

I've heard a long time ago that there is this tool that helps you tweek mysql settings for better performance but i can't seam to find it. I am aware that I can use ab for apache to simulate high ...