RE: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server?

Jared/all,

A joke is exactly how I read it and is how I meant my request for HELP to come across :).

Btw, thanks to everyone for interesting replies, reaffirming my grim suspicions about MS idea of "archiving"...

Gary Weber
Senior DBA
Charles Jones, LLC
609-530-1144, ext 5529

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Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:39 PM
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I thought everyone would realize this is a joke. It's been appearing with some regularity in a mocking tone of someone that posted it seriously a couple of weeks ago.

Sigh... Maybe I am just having a bad day.

Jared

On Wednesday 30 May 2001 23:50, Jared Still wrote:
> Are you an idiot?
>
> Jared
>
> On Wednesday 30 May 2001 14:55, Gary Weber wrote:
> > >>Guess what happens when a long running transaction marks
> >
> > the log near the end, and not too long afterward the log
> > needs truncated? If memory serves, ( hasn't worked too well lately :)
the
> > database
> > will hang. It may just truncate back to the mark, and start from
> > there, but you always have the possibility of another long
> > transaction starting.<<
> >
> > HELP
> >
> > Gary Weber
> > Senior DBA
> > Charles Jones, LLC
> > 609-530-1144, ext 5529

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