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 Posted by rcamarda on 03/12/07 20:03 
Greg, 
Its a data warehouse. I have tools that could rebuild an empty 
database pretty quickly (few hours) and I have daily backups. Builds 
take about 2 hours, then its read only the rest of the day. 
I use enterprise because of our licensing. 
 
Thanks for the info! 
> 
> Yes, I've done this and putting your non-clustered indexes in its own group 
> can provide an improvement.  Especially for rebuilds and the like. 
> 
> HOWEVER, your database most definitely DOES use the logs.  SIMPLE simply 
> means that as soon as transactions are complete, the log is truncated so it 
> won't grow. But it is definitely being used. 
> 
> Keep in mind that w/o logs, you seriously hamper your disaster recovery 
> options.  Since you're running SQL Server Enterprise, that makes me suspect 
> this is more than just a little test site. 
> 
> > SQL Server 2005 Enterprise x64 SP2 
> > 8 disk SAS Raid 1+0 w/ 512mb ram w/ battery backup. 
> > Thanks, 
> > Rob 
> 
> -- 
> Greg Moore 
> SQL Server DBA Consulting 
> Email: sql  (at)  greenms.com          http://www.greenms.com
 
  
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