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About Me:

I work as a professional software developer for a UK web hoster and internet services company and spend most of my time building provisioning and web based self-service systems for IIS, Apache and Citrix XenServer.

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Mar
21
awarded  Notable Question
Jan
11
awarded  Popular Question
Dec
11
accepted Downgrading SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard to Web Edition
Dec
11
comment Downgrading SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard to Web Edition
That's pretty much the conclusion I was coming to. I was hoping to avoid having to uninstall Standard then re-install Web Edition. Thanks for confirming this.
Dec
11
asked Downgrading SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard to Web Edition
Dec
1
comment Recommended page file size for SQL 2008R2 on Windows 2008R2
@SQLKiwi - thanks for the info.
Oct
16
comment Preventing users who are dbo from dropping their own databases
@AaronBertrand - using a trigger didn't seem very elegant. I just wondered if the security infrastructure in SQL Server could enforce this instead. But if you folks think this is the optimal approach then I'm happy.
Oct
16
comment Preventing users who are dbo from dropping their own databases
@AaronBertrand - no, they are just dbo in their own database.
Oct
16
answered Is there a way to query SQL Server 2005/2008 for location of its log files?
Oct
16
comment Preventing users who are dbo from dropping their own databases
@ShawnMelton - possibly, but I have to spend time trawling the background trace logs pinpointing when they did and then proving it was their finger trouble. It's one less thing I want to have to do.
Oct
16
asked Preventing users who are dbo from dropping their own databases
Sep
17
comment MDF and LDF contents in SQL Server
Why not try what you suggested (deleting the .ldf log file and creating a new one) and see what happens. When you've done that please come back, tell us what you found and flag or @ reply me. Thanks.
Sep
17
awarded  Famous Question
Aug
26
comment High rise in SQL Server CPU after adding a DB
I have asked the dba.se mods if they would like this question migrated. However, your question is somewhat vague and is going to be hard to answer without knowing more about the application that consumes this database and about the internals of the database itself.
Aug
9
accepted Enabling InnoDB on an existing MySQL production server
Aug
8
revised Enabling InnoDB on an existing MySQL production server
added 3 characters in body
Aug
8
comment Enabling InnoDB on an existing MySQL production server
Sorry, 5.1.59 to be precise.
Aug
8
comment Enabling InnoDB on an existing MySQL production server
This particular MySQL server was built from source and the built-in InnoDB wasn't compiled in. When I executed SHOW ENGINES; InnoDB wasn't listed and skip-innodb wasn't in the server's my.cnf file. However since asking the question I've now got the plugin version installed and running and so far so good.
Aug
8
awarded  Commentator
Aug
8
comment Enabling InnoDB on an existing MySQL production server
@RolandoMySQLDBA - No plans to do that, they can stay as MyISAM tables.