Posted by Michael Abair on 12/06/07 20:30

Just because the reboot fixed the issue doesn't mean that a preventative
reboot will stop it from occuring.

A reboot might not have been needed to resolve the issue in the first place.
Possibly a configuration change
or bouncing a service could have resolved it. My advice is to spend some
time researching the issue and if
you cant find a way to resolve it then find a way to detect it and have it
perform the least intrusive form of corrective action.

-Mike

"Neil" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> Running a SQL 7 system on a Windows 2000 server using Access 2000 on
> client machines as a front end. System administrator currently reboots the
> server once a month. Yesterday we had some weird thing with the database
> where users were getting ODBC errors when trying to access it. Rebooted
> the server, everything was fine. Suggested to the sa that he reboot the
> server once a week. He said he already does it once a month, and that's
> sufficient.
>
> My POV is that: a) doing it once a week might prevent situations such as
> the one yesterday; b) even without situations like the one yesterday,
> performance may be degrading over the course of the month, without our
> being aware of it, and rebooting once a week might help performance.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Neil
>

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